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Secure Hard Drive Deletion Appliance?

Posted by timothy on from the write-a-lot-of-xs-and-os dept.

An anonymous reader asks "I am searching for a box into which I can plug a hard drive (IDE or SCSI of various flavors) and automatically begin a secure deletion process (DoD 2250 compliant or the like would be good). This is normally for dead drives which need to be RMA-ed. Because of various regulations (HIPAA for starters), we need to at least attempt to do a good job clearing the disk. I've heard from a number of places, including this Slashdot story, that degaussing isn't great. There are software solutions out there, but in general, I want to toss a replacement hard drive in and not have to hunt around for hardware to put the bad drive in in order to run the software. Given the right case, a solid state drive, some SCSI cards and one of various pieces of software, I can imagine such a beast. Has anyone seen someone selling something like this?" No case-opening is necessary to use a USB/IDE converter, which might be a good middle ground. Any other ideas?

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  1. no by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    we are not going to help you find a rapid way to delete your child porn, fucking pervert

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  4. Re:Mandatory Aliens Reference by pwnage · · Score: 0, Troll

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  5. Are you one of the mentally retarded that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    shouldn't be allowed near a computer?

    Read the post! He's not talking about drives moving from one machine to another. He's talking about drives that need to be RMA'ed.

    Now to make this simple. It appears to me that you're the type of person that takes a while to grasp things. So let's do this math. If we're paying some idiot $15/hr to handle hard drive wipes which he claims to be doing 120 of each year and it take this idiot an hour to do each, and he proves to be equally inefficient at other tasks as well, then I'd assume that a minimum of $30,000 per year is being spent to employ a moron.

    You can hire a $8/hr university student to do the same work and more efficiently only part time. The cost would be $8,000 a year to employ him for 20 hours a week or $12,000 a year to employ him for 30 hours a week. This tells me that your company can buy the 120 hard drives you seem to think they would need for this and still save $6,000-$10,000 a year and still have more competant labor.

  6. doesn't add up by huded · · Score: 0, Troll

    you said: "Right now, I am probably doing a minimum of ten secure wipes every month. A new hard drive would cost roughly a hundred bucks. That's 12,000 dollars annually, minimum, just on hard drives, which would be wasted."

    I'm willing to bet that the portion of your salary that covers the time spent wiping drives is more than the $12,000 cost of replacing them. So -- if you're truly serious about maximizing revenue, then recommend the company fire you and use the cost savings to treat more indigent people.