On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 05:50:20PM -0000, Beartooth wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:45:25 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I'm using shred on some 2Tb USB disk drive that I plan to give away.
> So far it has taken 8 hours to shred 50% of the drive, which implies
> that it will take about 16 hours to shred the whole drive. I have
> another 2 drives to go.
>
> Is there a quicker way to protect my data when I give the drives away,
> other than smashing the drives to bits?
I notice that no one even mentioned DBAN. Is it just not fast, or
there some other consideration?
Having used DBAN once, I'm not a very authoritative voice, but...
I found that depending on the options you choose, it can also be
quite slow. one 250GB drive I wiped with it took more than 12 hours.
So for the next one I wanted to wipe I just used /dev/zero, which
should be adequate because I was just going to install something
else over it anyway.
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