Usually my process is very… hammer and drill related - but I have a family member who is interested in taking my latest batch of hard drives after I upgraded.
What are the best (linux) tools for the process? I’d like to run some tests to make sure they’re good first and also do a full zero out of any data. (Used to be a raid if that matters)
Edit: Thanks all, process is officially started, will probably run for quite a while. Appreciate the advice!
You could also use DBAN to perform the erasure from outside the operating system.
DBAN was acquired. I believe ShredOS (https://github.com/PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64) is its spiritual successor.
Oh, thanks for pointing that out. It’s been a while since I needed to erase a disk so I didn’t realize DBAN isn’t really a thing anymore.
Yeah, I was pretty sad to see it when I needed to wipe a disk recently for the first time in like 15 years.