GitHub - PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64: Shredos Disk Eraser 64 bit for all Intel 64 bit processors as well as processors from AMD and other vendors which make compatible 64 bit chips. ShredOS - Secure disk erasure/wipe
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Shredos Disk Eraser 64 bit for all Intel 64 bit processors as well as processors from AMD and other vendors which make compatible 64 bit chips. ShredOS - Secure disk erasure/wipe - PartialVolume/sh...

ShredOS is a USB bootable (BIOS or UEFI) small linux distribution with the sole purpose of securely erasing the entire contents of your disks using the program nwipe.

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    When I worked in an IT office, we often had multiple erase and clone processes going at the same time. We used machines like this: https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Bay-eSATA-SATA-Standalone/dp/B005CQ12W2 (First search result). We started the process and worked on other stuff. We had a flat fee of €40 or something for a HDD to SSD upgrade (clone + erase + installation). The actual work was 15-20 minutes.

    Nobody is wasting actual time when you can just have the process going when doing other stuff.

    • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      I agree that it is worth it at scale, but for a freelancer it won’t make much financial difference getting a new drive after a project.

      • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        GDPR laws are a big part of it. It’s illegal to not protect the privacy of your customers. We even shipped the erased disks to a specialized company.

        But also, the only way for this whole “just get them a new disk” to be profitable is if you resell the old disks as new disks. Which just sounds like evil capitalism to me.

        • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 days ago

          I don’t think we are arguing about the same scenario at all.

          Here is an example of what I have in mind:

          1. I work as a freelancer on a customers project.
          2. In my computer I have an 128G NVME (15$) which is seperate from my OS where I put the data the customer entrusted me with and the project files
          3. After the project, I take that NVME out, put it in a box on a shelf and buy a new one (15$) for the next project
          4. Some time after project completion, I can either trash the drives or send them in bulk to some data erasure service, or leave them on my shelf for ever.

          As opposed to

          1. After the project, I take that NVME-1 out, put it in a box on a shelf and buy a new one for the next project (NVME-2)
          2. for the project after that, I again take out NVME-2 and put it on a sheld, I get NVME-1 from my shelf, put it in, run secure erase for multiple hours before I can start working on the next project.

          My argument is, that the cost of the first process is negligible compared to the effort and hassle of the second process, for a freelancer that earns over 6x the cost of such drive per hour.

          • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            My scenario was indeed handling the drives of customers themselves.

            For your scenario I would just use some encrypted filesystem.