DBAN. <a href="http://www.dban.org/">http://www.dban.org/</a> One pass is sufficient on modern drives. If the drive is older than 7 years, use a few passes.<br><br>Unless their SSDs. In that case, shred them. To over-generalize, they cannot be erased in a reliable and secure fashion.<br>
<br>-Josh More<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jeff Jensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jjensen@apache.org">jjensen@apache.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have a few older PCs that I want to wipe the drives very well and<br>
donate. Googling, I see quite a few apps to do so. What are current<br>
top recs and approaches any of you have done?<br>
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