Data and Asset Destruction

Stoner81

Stoner81

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Hey folks hopefully you guys can give me some help and advice on this...

Where I work is looking in to doing secure data destruction for 2nd hand machines and refurbishing. The current problem we have is that the system we use can only do 4 HDD's at once and really we need to do be able to do 10+ at once (more is even better) and still generate a certificate to state they have been wiped.

So does anybody know what sort of hardware we need to be looking at? It doesn't need to be all singing all dancing just enough to run the software to wipe the drives.

Thanks in advance folks!

Stoner81.
 
After doing a lot of searching we have decided to get a bench table with an expansion card for SATA connectors to give us the 10 we need, hopefully everything works as it should otherwise the gaffa is going to pee'd off to say the least *gulp*

Stoner81.
 
Used to use a massive pillar drill at one of the banks I used to work at many moons ago.

Would prefer explosives but I guess that all depends on where you live. :)
 
Would your boss allow you to invest in something like this;

10x SATA ports

http://www.asrock.com/mb/intel/z97 extreme6/

You'd obviously need a CPU and RAM etc...

I used to work in an IT Refurbishment place where we had an RM computer with ~6 SATA and 2 IDE ports which allowed us 10 drive to be data wiped at a time.

Looked ugly as hell having drives scattered about everywhere, but it did the job.
 
The proper way to do it would be to shell out for some kind of wiping server licence. I've set up and used Blancco before, which when set up right is excellent for high volumes of wipes especially if you need to comply with certain standards, which you will for larger customers. Also allows you to spit out reports/certs to prove compliance and destruction.

As a handy side effect it also inventories each machine (board serial, number of CPUs/cores/RAM/HDDs (inc serials, model and capacities)... And add in your own printed asset/serial numbers, so really quite handy for a commercial outfit.

The way I've done it in the past is set up Blancco server on a fairly modest old box and have it sit on it's own network, PXE boot the client machines to it (on a KVM) and let it do it's thing for a few hours.

As for cost, they'll have to quote you, so that my be a deciding factor :D
 
We have bought a benching table with a board which has 6 SATA ports on it and a expansion card to give us another 4 so we can then wire up 10 drives at once (boot from USB for the wiping software) so hopefully we should be OK depending on how it takes off in which then we are going to have to sort out something much bigger ;)

Thanks for the replies folks always appreciated :)

Stoner81.
 
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