Monday, June 19, 2017

security - Securely format a hard drive




I have just taken 8 old 250gb drives out of one of our servers.
I need to securely wipe all the data on these drives, before they are decomissioned.
Can anyone suggest an open source software that could do this? My idea is to mount the drive into a usb caddy, and run some kind of tool on the drive, to wipe it completely.

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