[ale] dban??

[Greg Freemyer]

Dban is more than fine.  Nuke it and forget it.

Along those lines I found a shredding company off of P'tree Ind. that
will physically shred a drive while you watch for $7/drive.  They have
a $50 minimum I think.  And you have to bring the drives to them
between 1pm and 2pm or something like that.

The watching is done via a combination of direct and video.  They have
a small viewing room where you can watch your box of drives be carried
out and placed on the conveyor belt.  Then be carried up to and dumped
into the feeding area of a large commercial  shredder.  Inside the
feeding area they have a video camera setup and a monitor in the
viewing room, so you can watch as your drives get shredded.  It's sort
of cool to watch.

ie. Note, they are busy shredding trucks worth of paper, etc. most of
the day and will tell you to go away, but they have an idle period
just after lunch where they accept walk in traffic and have special
reduced minimums compared to having the truck come by your office.

I think its P'tree Secure Shredding and in my experience they answer
the phone.  Best to call in advance and make sure they are accepting
walk-in traffic the day you want to do this.

Greg

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Okay, so I'm cleaning up some old hardware before getting rid of it.
> Anyone care to comment on dban or other solutions for erasing the hard
> drives?  I don't want to destroy the hardware, just erase the data.  I'm
> not concerned with what the usual government 3 letter organizations can
> do, just your average cracker out in the wild.
>
>
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> Until later, Geoffrey
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