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No we are not keeping the drives but we have a lot of equipment we would like to get rid of ideally something on a thumb drive &nbsp;would be ideal.
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No we are not keeping the drives but we have a lot of equipment we would like to get rid of ideally something on a thumb drive  would be ideal.

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Make a bootable USB and put disk wipe on it.
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Make a bootable USB and put disk wipe on it.

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Thanks for the info. I will verify
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I was wondering if anyone knows of a Hippa compliant disk wipe utility? Right now the process is removing the hard drive and using an electromagnet on it and then putting it back to test it. We do get audited.
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I was wondering if anyone knows of a Hippa compliant disk wipe utility? Right now the process is removing the hard drive and using an electromagnet on it and then putting it back to test it. We do get audited.

Disk Wipe Utility

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.

Storage Hardware

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Software

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