(xx)HD Test / Wipe tool(s)
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My brother asked me about how I would test and wipe a hard drive..,.. Any type. He has some old SCSI type, as well as PATA and SATA drives.
Other then spending hours with only one computer going from back and forth with a drive or spending upwards to $1800, is there a way to test a drive to see if it's still 'trustworthy' or toast,.. and then wiping them.
This is a personal level thing - he's picked up a stack of drives and want to be able to either use them or destroy them with no or little cost.
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I have usually used vendor specify software like Seatools for Seagate drives to test.
Then I use Dban to nuke drive.
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@technobabble said:
I have usually used vendor specify software like Seatools for Seagate drives to test.
Then I use Dban to nuke drive.
This sounds like a good process to me. Only so much to be done to test them.
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DBAN always works for me.
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Hard to go wrong with DBAN. For testing them, just getting them onto a machine with SMART tools and doing something basic like building a filesystem on it should be enough.
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Another vote for DBAN.
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For testing I'd go with the manufacture tools, but to exercise the drive and possibly help it help itself.. I'd run a level 4 scan with Spinrite.
