Originally Posted by
hills
The easiest way to get into drive wiping would be to get what's called a hard drive dock for 2.5 " & 3.5" drives. A Google search will turn up plenty to choose from.
The dock plugs into the USB port of just about any PC that you have on hand.
Next, you download some drive wiping software onto your PC. (There are a bunch of free apps you can choose from.)
It's a little bit of work at the beginning because it's a new thing to figure out. It's pretty easy once you get the knack of it though. The machine does all of the work.
This is a good tool to have in your shop if your main goal is to get into the electronics end of scrapping.
I have a few docks that plug into USB for ide/sata drives, but they wipe SO SLOW. Maybe I dont have the correct type of docks? I feel like the usb is a bottleneck for wiping and figured a direct attached to the motherboard would wipe much faster. I feel like with the usb dock it goes like this
computer[Write 0s/Random]--->USB---->Dock---->Drive
And the USB bottlenecks its. However, if there was a dock that worked like this:
computer[Instruction to dock to write 0s/Random]---->USB---->Dock[Write 0s/Random]----->Drive
It may be faster. In the past Ive used either DBAN or just the DD command on linux, to wipe drives, and both seem to work out ok, just seemed too slow over USB last time I tried with the docks I have.
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