DoD Harddrive Secure Erase Wipe

DoD Harddrive Secure Erase Wipe

I have a project which I need to DoD harddrives for the company. I
have large raid-scsi enclosure which I can use.

I have access Quad/Octa Xeon P4 servers with 3 dual channel LVE/SE
ultra scsi 160 cards. With these, I would be able to drive 4 x 14 scsi
drive (IBM EXP300 / 3531-1RU) units.

What are my options?

I was thinking about doing following.

1. for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do time dd /dev/random of=/dev/sda
bs=1048576; done

Use the random bits into drive 7 times.
I think with 14 x 36GB scsi in raid5 setup would take approximately
18 x 7pass = 5 days.
This is pretty bad.

2. I could setup stripped version of gentoo with proper raid
controller driver(here IBM ServeRaid 4Mx and run DBAN from boot drive.

I've got a question, does anyone have working knowledge of DoD5200.28-
STD & DoD5200.22-M? I need to know how it's supposed to work, then I
could just write simple c program to erase drive instead of relying on
other tools for speed.
I need fastest solution available.

Thanks.

oktokie wrote:
> DoD Harddrive Secure Erase Wipe
>
> I have a project which I need to DoD harddrives for the company. I
> have large raid-scsi enclosure which I can use.
>
> I have access Quad/Octa Xeon P4 servers with 3 dual channel LVE/SE
> ultra scsi 160 cards. With these, I would be able to drive 4 x 14 scsi
> drive (IBM EXP300 / 3531-1RU) units.
>
> What are my options?
>
> I was thinking about doing following.
>
> 1. for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do time dd /dev/random of=/dev/sda
> bs=1048576; done
>
> Use the random bits into drive 7 times.
> I think with 14 x 36GB scsi in raid5 setup would take approximately
> 18 x 7pass = 5 days.
> This is pretty bad.
>
> 2. I could setup stripped version of gentoo with proper raid
> controller driver(here IBM ServeRaid 4Mx and run DBAN from boot drive.
>
> I've got a question, does anyone have working knowledge of DoD5200.28-
> STD & DoD5200.22-M? I need to know how it's supposed to work, then I
> could just write simple c program to erase drive instead of relying on
> other tools for speed.
> I need fastest solution available.

I see that "Eraser" does DoD wipes, and has open source:
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/

"oktokie" <oktokie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> DoD Harddrive Secure Erase Wipe
>
> I have a project which I need to DoD harddrives for the company. I
> have large raid-scsi enclosure which I can use.

It might be quicker for you to do a quick format on all the drives and copy
a large harmless file to the drives as many times (different folders) as
required. Why not just copy files from a DVD film onto the drives - this
will overwrite all sectors on the drives and only take you a few hours. You
can then do another format to remove the material.