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I'm doing a kind of internship / jobshadowing thing with a small PC Shop to try and gain technical experience with the goal of getting into IT. One of the small starter projects the owner may let me tackle is erasing hard drives so they can be resold.
I am aware of Darik's Boot and Nuke, but wondered if there may be a simpler option by just using the Linux command Shred. I was thinking 3 passes of random data and 1 pass of zeros. I have wiped one of my own drives this way.
I'm curious about how this may work if I could hook up 3 or more drives at the same time. From the desktop environment, could I just simply open 3 terminals and run shred in each of them at the same time and be able to watch the progress? I'm also working on improving my knowledge of Hardware, so I thought I'd run this idea by other people before I put it into practice, but it seems like this could be a way for a Live Linux to bulk erase some drives. Even better if it's faster than DBAN so I can feel like I'm contributing to the store.
I am aware of Darik's Boot and Nuke, but wondered if there may be a simpler option by just using the Linux command Shred. I was thinking 3 passes of random data and 1 pass of zeros. I have wiped one of my own drives this way.
I'm curious about how this may work if I could hook up 3 or more drives at the same time. From the desktop environment, could I just simply open 3 terminals and run shred in each of them at the same time and be able to watch the progress? I'm also working on improving my knowledge of Hardware, so I thought I'd run this idea by other people before I put it into practice, but it seems like this could be a way for a Live Linux to bulk erase some drives. Even better if it's faster than DBAN so I can feel like I'm contributing to the store.