Diskpartĭiskpart has the ability to ‘zero out’ every sector on the disk. Leverage some built-in and easily accessible Windows utilities to secure and wipe your mechanical disks. But being that I live in a Windows world driven largely by MDT and SCCM, I wanted something I could easily integrate with that environment, leveraging “ubiquitous utilities” and minimizing reliance on third-party software. I’ve always been a big fan of dd and dban, the latter of which has been my recommended go-to disk wiping solution, and was even the solution employed by one of my past employers. And by that I mean: While I don’t want someone perusing through my collection of family photos, music and what little intellectual property I may like to think I have, I also don’t know what dollar amount I’m willing to pay to keep said privacy. I’ve explored some professional drive destruction services, but honestly I don’t trust some of the more affordable ones, and the ones I do trust are almost prohibitively expensive.

Well there haven’t been too many rainy days and I’m feeling it’s time to purge these drives.

As needs grew and technology evolved, I upgraded to larger drives here and there, made the move to SSDs on some systems and kept the old drives in a box for future rainy day projects. Most of them were inherited from other systems I acquired over time, some gifts and some purchased by myself. Over the years I’ve collected quite a few mechanical/spindle drives at home. I’m not data recovery or security expert so feel free to take this with a grain of salt. See this post for guidance on how to wipe SSD’s. This post is NOT for solid-state drives (aka SSD) This post specifically speaks to traditional mechanical or spindle-based hard drives.

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