Arun,
Oh, yes! I specifically warned him that he would need to implement some
sort of nuking of the hard drives, and not just try to "erase" or
"reformat" them before handing them off to some "junk dealer!!"
He's got two older Dell servers running Windows Server 2012 R2 on SCSI
drives; one of them has a 7TB RAID array. I told him it was gonna take a
bit!
Hey, and thanks for the heads up on some live boot solutions!
Tim (Paws Prime)
On 8/15/25 12:41 PM, Arun Khan wrote:
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM Paws Prime via PLUG-discuss
<[email protected]> wrote:
Dang it! I spent almost a full day at a client's office and was so
pooped I totally spaced out about the PLUG meeting!
This particular client has semi-retired and is closing his office. He
has a bunch of hardware that he needs to get rid of, and I was there
yesterday starting the process of backing up all of his
information and
discussing what he should keep and what he should get rid of. I'll be
headed over there next Tuesday, August 19th, to wrap up the
backups and
test some processes he will use when working from home on his
laptop. If
there is anybody interested in what hardware he wants to give
away, I'll
do a quick inventory and post it to the PLUG discussion list.
I am sure you have this in your checklist.
Nonetheless, make sure you *wipe* *all* the storage media (not just
the files) using a live boot OS like 'dban <https://dban.org/>' or
'ShredOS (nwipe) <https://github.com/PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64>'
This can be time consuming; depending on how many physical storage
devices your client has, make enough bootable USB sticks to run the
process in parallel.
While dd, shred, wipe are OK to write random data on disks/files and
are available in all Linux distros, I personally prefer to use a Live OS.
For nvme storage devices, the erase process requires a few extra steps
<https://github.com/PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64?tab=readme-ov-file#wipe-ssd-and-nvme-using-hdparm-and-nvme-cli>
HTH
--
Arun Khan
--
Thanks,
Tim
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