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Nwipe vs HDD physical destruction (hackertalks.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a bunch of hard disks that have come to the end of their useful life, I was thinking about physically destroying them, but that seems like a lot of work.

https://github.com/martijnvanbrummelen/nwipe

Nwipe and shreados are very popular. What are your thoughts on the effectiveness of nwipe?

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[–] Zerophnx 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

We use nwipe at the office and are happy with it. It has a dod preset or you can stick with prng. We usually use prng and zeros.

If you have a ton of drives I think shredos can be automated with boot parameters. Could save a lot of time and/or let you scale wiping better