3 tips from someone who used to run a repair biz out of his apt. used to build and sell pcs. Customers had no issue with me working in my boxers either lol. House used to look like NASA with 5 or more pcs running with 5 monitors.
Anyhow, if your using a p3 pc to wipe the drives forget it. You need a p4 or higher to cut it. The p3 proc cant handle the calculations needed fast enough to wipe the drive. 2 make sure you connect the drive directly to board. Usb passthrough will seriously slow down the drive read/write. Also make sure you board is at least udma5 higher or higher speed. If not use a pci raid card so you can get max throughput.
And lastly you can jumper any power supply to turn on to power your drives. Google for it, but off the top of my head I remeber black for ground and green is the turn on wires for the power supply. Jumper them with a paper clip, piece of copper etc and the power supply will turn on. Then you can use it to power all drives instead of jumpering into ya pc. Plugging and unplugging wears out the molex connector quite fast, so better off having a junk psu to power them up and ruin the molex connectors on that.
And lastly the best program to use to wipe drives is http://www.dban.org/. It will boot right into dos and work without windows environment slowing it down.
Thats all i got...have a good one.
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