Hard Drive Erase Software. Requirements For Selling Hard Drives

**PartTimeScrapper** · 11-03-2012, 06:05 PM

Im currently using media tools wipe. It can do up to 18 drives at once. Wasnt free bit it works very well.

**twmart** · 11-27-2012, 06:15 PM

PTS how do you like the mediatools wipe compared to the Disk Wipe or Dban? Is it any faster or is it just as slow as the rest?? I am wiping a 320Gb SATA drive and as always on large drives it takes forever!!
I like Dban on SCSI Ultra 320 drives, a 15K 300Gb drive wipes way faster than SATA.

Do you use the reporting feature to create reports showing the drive was wiped?

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

Im currently using media tools wipe. It can do up to 18 drives at once. Wasnt free bit it works very well.

**PartTimeScrapper** · 11-27-2012, 06:28 PM

I like the mediatools software alot. Whats real nice is since I started using it I have been in constant email talks with the creator. He has implemented alot of the changed I told him abhout into his software to make it much friendlier to use. As far as time goes. Well let me put it this way. If i have any drives larger than 250gb I set them to be done when I go to bed and they are usualy done when I get up. As far as a report goes. Yes there is a printable report for each drive that you can print out after wipe is complete that pulls all the drive info off the drive and into the report.

I like this program because I use my main computer for the wiping stuff because I still havnt built my test bench up completly yet. So its windows based and seems to work well. I do use a 4 port startech dock conected via Esata so it goes pretty darn fast. Also with this program and my dock I can do 4 diferent size drives and when the smaller ones are done I can close them out plug in another drive and start again without stopping the other wipes.

**twmart** · 11-27-2012, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

Also with this program and my dock I can do 4 diferent size drives and when the smaller ones are done I can close them out plug in another drive and start again without stopping the other wipes.

Yeah that is a big draw back to Dban cause you have to shut down to swap out drives. Also I have noticed lately that Dban has issues with some computers that have the memory card slots. I think I will have serious look at the Mediatools software. I don't have a ton of drives. Do you know if it can handle SCSI drives as well?
If not I could still use Dban for those.

Have you ever had to wipe zip disks before? I got some and the data was private so my only choice was to take the 1Gb zips apart and bend the platters or cut them up.

**PartTimeScrapper** · 11-27-2012, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by twmart

Yeah that is a big draw back to Dban cause you have to shut down to swap out drives. Also I have noticed lately that Dban has issues with some computers that have the memory card slots. I think I will have serious look at the Mediatools software. I don't have a ton of drives. Do you know if it can handle SCSI drives as well?
If not I could still use Dban for those.

Have you ever had to wipe zip disks before? I got some and the data was private so my only choice was to take the 1Gb zips apart and bend the platters or cut them up.

Will wipe any drive that can be detected my disk manager. That even includes usb drives. Never dealt with zip drives sorry.

**miked** · 11-29-2012, 07:14 AM

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

I like the mediatools software alot. Whats real nice is since I started using it I have been in constant email talks with the creator. He has implemented alot of the changed I told him abhout into his software to make it much friendlier to use. As far as time goes. Well let me put it this way. If i have any drives larger than 250gb I set them to be done when I go to bed and they are usualy done when I get up. As far as a report goes. Yes there is a printable report for each drive that you can print out after wipe is complete that pulls all the drive info off the drive and into the report.

I like this program because I use my main computer for the wiping stuff because I still havnt built my test bench up completly yet. So its windows based and seems to work well. I do use a 4 port startech dock conected via Esata so it goes pretty darn fast. Also with this program and my dock I can do 4 diferent size drives and when the smaller ones are done I can close them out plug in another drive and start again without stopping the other wipes.

Terry can you provide a link to mediatools. I googled them and got several matches none were the obvious correct one, at least to me. Thank you, Mike.

**MediaTools** · 11-29-2012, 04:10 PM

Originally Posted by miked

Terry can you provide a link to mediatools. I googled them and got several matches none were the obvious correct one, at least to me. Thank you, Mike.

Hi Miked -

My name is Mike Fiato and I am a Product Manager with Prosoft Engineering and I have been the one working with Terry. Contact me and I can set you up with a 30 day demo, so you can try it out.
This is a new application for us , but we are adding new features all the time. Wipe should do everything you need.

For some reason I can't post a link. You find Wipe at prosofteng dot com.

Cheers,

mfiato at prosofteng dot com

**PartTimeScrapper** · 01-06-2013, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by miked

Terry can you provide a link to mediatools. I googled them and got several matches none were the obvious correct one, at least to me. Thank you, Mike.

Dont know how this one got by me but here is the link mike. Some others pmed me wanting it as well but I couldnt reply inbox was full.
Mediatools Wipe - Disk Wiping Software For Windows | Prosofteng