Quote Originally Posted by kss View Post
Interesting that you use the Secure Erase command. Do all drives support those commands? I thought that not all drives supported those commands, although maybe I am mixing up those sets of commands with S.M.A.R.T .... whatever.

If you are doing this on pallet scale would it makes sense to buy like an enterprise grade wiping station/enclosure that is specifically built hardware/software for wiping drives? Something like this thing for example:

https://www.45drives.com/products/data-destruction/



Although, I suppose you could probably build an equally capable machine out of stuff you come across like servers and such (they are like $10k... but at a large enough scale it could be worth it..... and a pallet.... sounds like it is approaching that scale lol)
Whew ... 10 k. is a pretty big investment for a small business.

Look forward to the future though. I think it's a matter of timing and when the next wave of change will crest. The trend with personal computing has been from large to small. Traditional hard drives will always have some market share but that's shrinking. Many of the smaller devices have already gone to SSD chips that are soldered right to the board. In a few years ... there may not be very many traditional HDD's available for wiping and resale.

It might be best not to invest in a technology that may soon become obsolete ?