DOD Wipes

[bwatson283]

Are there any out there that don't take as long? I was wondering if there was a faster one.

The one I got from the HP rep that i worked with, has 3 stages and it has been about an hour and a half, stage 3 is crawling really slow! might take 5 hours at this rate.

DOD ver. 5220.22

 

[Matthias99]

Are there any out there that don't take as long? I was wondering if there was a faster one.

The one I got from the HP rep that i worked with, has 3 stages and it has been about an hour and a half, stage 3 is crawling really slow! might take 5 hours at this rate.

If you want to meet DoD data erasure specs it's pretty much required to take a long time given today's hard disk sizes. You have to overwrite the entire disk multiple times with different types of data.

A single zero fill should be good enough for 99.9% of home users. But it won't meet DoD specs.

 

[bwatson283]

Man, if i want to wipe every drive in my power house rig, that thing will take days!

3 160gb
1 120gb
2 250gb

 

[bluestrobe]

dban is only taking 40 minutes on a 80gb drive here from what I recall.