HI, GUYS IM NEW TO HDDGURU I APPRECIATE ANY HELP AND I APOLOGYZE IF IM IN THE WRONG AREA.

IM A STUDENT WHICH IM TRYING TO MAKE MONEY WIPING HDD, I GET LIKE 4 HDD A WEEK TO WIPE. MY QUESTION IS IF I WIPE A HARD DRIVE AFTER THAT IS JUST RAMDOM CHARACTERS WRITEN TO THE DISK . CAN I CLONE THE DRIVE TO MAKE THE PROCESS FASTER. SO I DONT NEED TO WAIT 4 HOURS AT LEAST.FOR EACH 500GB HDD. THANK YOU IF NEED MORE INFO MY EMAIL IS MJION20@GMAIL.COM

What tool are you using to wipe the drives with?

What tool will you use to clone if deciding to do so?

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Hard Disk Drive (HDD), Solid State Drive (SSD, SATA, NVMe, etc), USB Flash Drive and RAID Data Recovery Specialist in Massachusetts

Hi Josue,

It's not the end result but the PROCESS to get the end result which satisfies the DOD requirement. So it is not valid just to clone the RESULT of the wipe to another drive.


Eric.

True, if the OP and his "customers" care about DoD requirements, which he did not mention of.

The end result whether it is wiping or cloning zeros or whatever characters will be pretty much the same = can't "recover" data.

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Hard Disk Drive (HDD), Solid State Drive (SSD, SATA, NVMe, etc), USB Flash Drive and RAID Data Recovery Specialist in Massachusetts

Whether you write random characters, zeroes or clone another drive that already been wiped, it is likely going to take a couple hours to completely wipe/overwrite a 500GB drive.

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Luke
Recovery Force Donor Inventory: 5,000+ Fully Cataloged HDDs & Growing

The Atola Bandura will zero fill an average 500GB drive in about an hour and twenty mins @ 104MB/s ..... You can even do 2 at a time with no real performance loss... and you can even create your own custom fill pattern should you wish..

Not a bad piece of kit... I use it every day primarily to sanitise my target drives..

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FIRST OF ALL THANKS GUYS I APPRECIATED ALL YOUR HELP & ALL YOUR KNOWLEDGE SORRY IM A LIL LATE BUT HERE I'M, THE WIPE HAS TO BE DOD 5220.22-M (3PASS-1VERIFY), I MADE MY SELF A WINXP LIVE CD WITH K1LLD1SK IN IT SINCE K1LLD1SK IS DOD COMPILANT. I WAS THINKING TO USE @CRONIS TO CLONE THE HARD DRIVE AT LEAST MY FIRST OPTION. I LOOK AT ( http://www.ics-iq.com/Image-MASSter-WipePRO-Hard-Drive-Data-Eraser-p/f.gr-4204.htm) BUT ITS NOT GONNA HAPPEND SINCE IM A STUDEND. NOT PAYING SO MUCH. WELL GUYS THIS IS A GREAT FORUM AND YOUR HELP SAVE MY DAY. HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY. ANY REPLY LET ME KNOW. THE ALOTA BADURA LOOKS GREAT BUT IM NOT ABLE TO PAY FOR IT.

THANKS TO ALL