Best secure erase software?

Mynight · 10 Jan 2015 at 00:10

I've recently been given a old server from a large corp and stupidly the data still seems to be intact.

I plan on setting it up freshly so what would be the best way to ensure data is gone seeing as it will be public facing once setup.

Am I being paranoid and simply installing linux over the current windows software will be enough or is there a suitable utility to blitz the drives before I clean install?

Mynight · 10 Jan 2015 at 16:47

Thanks everyone

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Mynight · 10 Jan 2015 at 23:12

Well after 6 hours it's completed and I can get to installing centos once I work out why the installation display is at 45 degrees

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Mynight · 11 Jan 2015 at 17:01

The SSDs were physically destroyed they were nearing end of life on the smart scan anyway so just swapped them out for spares.

By old I'm talking 2010 afaik.

I didn't expect to start a discussion on it

. Rather interesting

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Thanks again everyone!