Proper HDD clear process?

Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 56 points –

Usually my process is very... hammer and drill related - but I have a family member who is interested in taking my latest batch of hard drives after I upgraded.

What are the best (linux) tools for the process? I'd like to run some tests to make sure they're good first and also do a full zero out of any data. (Used to be a raid if that matters)

Edit: Thanks all, process is officially started, will probably run for quite a while. Appreciate the advice!

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While this wouldn't work for you now, something to think about is encrypting new drives going forward so that you don't have to worry about erasing/zeroing them, just toss the encryption key and your good to go.

I would at least overwrite the Luks header.

I like it, then it's even harder to know that it was encrypted in the first place. Thanks for that suggestion.