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Author:  mediaman [ October 13th, 2008, 10:30 ]
Post subject:  zero fill SW recomendations?

hello chaps,

I have tried a ton of zero fill sw's and they all seem a little dumb, or maybe its me. problems found:
- they are manufacturers own brand so only detect a certain make of HD
- they don't detect all drives or "seem" to detect one but don't say which!!! (i could remove all 6 drives from the machine but thats a pain)
- they are too slow (HDAT for example does not seem to ever finish a feebback is lousy)

Any ideas that suffer less from the above classic problems?

Thanks

Author:  beto [ October 14th, 2008, 9:08 ]
Post subject:  Re: zero fill SW recomendations?

Winhex the best for me :D

Author:  mediaman [ October 14th, 2008, 10:51 ]
Post subject:  Re: zero fill SW recomendations?

errrrrrrrr. well, if your going to recommend so strongly a great HW solution you could give it's name or a link?

where do i send the money :roll: ?

Author:  mediaman [ October 14th, 2008, 14:55 ]
Post subject:  Re: zero fill SW recomendations?

beto, I have downloaded WinHex, it looks very cool. Like all this new to me stuff I'm sure it will take a while to learn. What other features of it do you use in day to day DR? It has powerful imaging (no reverse though AFAIK) and search functions that remind me of DiskExplorer by runtime.

THanks for the recommendation.

Author:  beto [ October 14th, 2008, 18:08 ]
Post subject:  Re: zero fill SW recomendations?

Hy mediaman, winhex its a very usefull tool, for DR and forensic, , has a lot of features, for example: Build a virtual RAID on memory, the clone like u check, and another like search of headers for any file in every sector , and of course, templates for analyze different File Systems,FAT,NTF,HFS,etc disk editors for any media, HDD, even RAM thats very usefull and the best u can build u own , scripts thats only a little of features but u can check more about at winhex website

Regards

Author:  hddguy [ October 15th, 2008, 6:14 ]
Post subject:  Re: zero fill SW recomendations?

Winhex, or X-Ways Forensics, is actually one of my favourate SW tools. This and UFS explorer :)

Author:  Dmitry Postrigan [ October 15th, 2008, 11:53 ]
Post subject:  Re: zero fill SW recomendations?

MHDD can erase hard drives at full speed;
You can also use Security Erase function in any software (MHDD, Victoria, Insight, ...) - this one is the fastest since it is done by the hard drive itself
Or, there's this little thingy: http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/ ... Wipe-Tool/

Author:  mediaman [ October 15th, 2008, 22:51 ]
Post subject:  Re: zero fill SW recomendations?

"trys to start Insight, hasp key in lab"
Dmitry, does the security erase function 00h fill or put some other stuff there?

Author:  Dmitry Postrigan [ October 16th, 2008, 1:27 ]
Post subject:  Re: zero fill SW recomendations?

As far as I remember security erase writes 00h. I might be wrong though, but it can be easily checked :)

Author:  irs [ October 16th, 2008, 3:26 ]
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hi, iu sed winhex for wiping (for a while) but now i do it through deepspar ... very fast and worked on all drives i tried.

Author:  hddguy [ October 16th, 2008, 7:12 ]
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Isnt $3000 a lot of money to spend on Deepspar when you use it to zero fill disks???

Author:  irs [ October 17th, 2008, 3:43 ]
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hddguy, i totally agree, wiping drives is not the work i use deepspar for ... but as mediaman asked for hw solution's names i gave him one which is very fast for wipes

Author:  CK [ October 17th, 2008, 5:24 ]
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Like IRS, I use my Deepspars when they are idle (which isn't often!) to wipe image drives. Quick and easy.

Author:  pcimage [ October 17th, 2008, 7:18 ]
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Me too!

Very quick at erasing!

Author:  mediaman [ October 17th, 2008, 8:37 ]
Post subject:  Re: zero fill SW recomendations?

maysoft wrote:
MHDD can erase hard drives at full speed;
You can also use Security Erase function in any software (MHDD, Victoria, Insight, ...) - this one is the fastest since it is done by the hard drive itself
Or, there's this little thingy: http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/ ... Wipe-Tool/


I can't see this in Insight Dmitry, i looked and looked. am i crazy or you? or both?

Author:  Dmitry Postrigan [ October 17th, 2008, 20:51 ]
Post subject:  Re: zero fill SW recomendations?

Please see the attached picture :)
Attachment:
AtolaInsight-Security-Erase.jpg
AtolaInsight-Security-Erase.jpg [ 106.25 KiB | Viewed 14958 times ]

Author:  pasiz [ October 18th, 2008, 6:08 ]
Post subject:  Re: zero fill SW recomendations?

maysoft wrote:
Please see the attached picture :)
Attachment:
AtolaInsight-Security-Erase.jpg


When atola is in production state and what is update policy on it? Searched thru the website but cannot find answer for that?


Regards,
Pasi

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