[BBLISA] Looking for disk destruction in metro Boston/Manchester NH area.

Brian O'Neill oneill at oinc.net
Thu Feb 7 14:54:14 EST 2013


On 2/7/2013 2:04 PM, John P. Rouillard wrote:
> Our normal decomissioning (before releasing to employees or sending it
> out for recyling) is to run a single cycle dban with a zero pass for
> normal drives. For drives with sensitive (PII or contractually
> obligated data) we return the drives to the supplier or do a more
> extensive wipe of the data using multiple methods.

Ironically I'm at a datacenter all day today, wiping systems. 
Unfortunately DBAN failed to work on a number of systems (they all have 
hardware RAID), so we're using live CDs and a perl script I whipped up 
that writes pseudo-random data directly to the drives.

-Brian



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