DBAN.  http://www.dban.org/  One pass is sufficient on modern drives.  If
the drive is older than 7 years, use a few passes.

Unless their SSDs.  In that case, shred them.  To over-generalize, they
cannot be erased in a reliable and secure fashion.

-Josh More

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jeff Jensen <jjensen at apache.org> wrote:

> I have a few older PCs that I want to wipe the drives very well and
> donate.  Googling, I see quite a few apps to do so.  What are current
> top recs and approaches any of you have done?
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