DBAN or Active Killdisk?

zom247

zom247

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I've been sorting through all my drives and I've got about 6 that I want to sell but need to wipe them first.

I just want to know what I should use to wipe them. If I use DBAN I'll have to remove all my other drives from the PC and I've read it takes ages to do. Killdisk can be run in Windows and takes a fraction of the time but is it good enough? The drives were just used to store movies (not pron - I'm keeping those drives :) ) but I'd still like to wipe them. Unless there are any other alternatives of course...
 
NealR said:
you can get dban to wipe specific disks, or all.

Put as many as you can into a machine, and tell dban to wipe them all :)
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Ok, thanks for that. How many passes should I go for? Is the 3 pass option (autonuke I think) enough?
 
Tomsk said:
The person who buys the OP's HD or any used HD is very unlikely to spend several (if not hundreds) times the amount they paid for the HD just to get at the wiped data.
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I'll have you know that there may well be some very interesting home movie clips that show me living it up drinking on holiday. There's all sorts of pervs out there :D
 
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