On 07/17/13 10:37, Al Puzzuoli wrote:
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Hi everyone,

I understand that when old computers and servers go to salvage, the drives in those computers are wiped, but what about free floating drives? We have several old drives that were formerly  part of an array. If we pass those onto salvage, will they be disposed of securely?

Thanks,

 

Al Puzzuoli

Michigan State University

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Why don't you hook them up to any kind of unix like system and do
something like

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd0c bs=64k      (OpenBSD example)

to be sure?

--STeve Andre'