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? > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120119/a1b73959/attachment-0001.html>