DoD Harddrive Secure Erase Wipe
I have a project which I need to DoD harddrives for the company. I
have large raid-scsi enclosure which I can use.
I have access Quad/Octa Xeon P4 servers with 3 dual channel LVE/SE

Windows XP
eMachines computer with AMD Athlon processor
I have recenly bought a Cavalry 2x500GB external storage with built-in
RAID capability. I am new to RAID configurations, even though not for

Is there any reason for me to be suspicious
or worried about using the Samsung HD103UJ?
I've seen no hard evidence against them, but
they are the only drives on the market with

my seagate 200gb serial ATA drive had an accident and now requires
data recovery, the platters / motor are fine its just the controller
board that has been damaged .... anyway need to get a working drive
with exact model number part number and firware version in order to

Would enterprise SATA drives like Seagate Barracuda ES.2 work in a
desktop PC? I am assuming there's no difference physically, i.e. SATA
data and power connectors are identical between desktop and server
environments.

I will be adding a couple of SATA drives to my computer and would
appreciate knowing a source or brand of good quality SATA and SATA II
cables. (strong, well-fitting connectors, in particular).
Thanks

I wonder if any converters are out there, to make a networked storage
(SMB share, NDAS, ...) appear as a USB drive. That would be a small box
with a USB male connector and a 1GB Ethernet socket, remotely
configurable to access the specific networked storage.

I have a removable SATA Seriel hard drive as my second hard drive. I
has been working just fine showing up as drive E. I have the Wester
Digital 250 Gig WD Caviar RE16. I wanted to increase the storage so
got the Western Digital 750 Gig WD Caviar RE16. I slid the old har

Is there any method so that i can check whether HDD password is set or
not?
Regards
Sachin

I've been reading this document which is an analysis of Google's hard
disc failure rates:
Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population:
http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf

I tend to think that it would be best that an external drive enclosure
would be best if it had active cooling built-in (i.e. a fan). However,
I've recently seen a drive fail inside an actively-cooled enclosure so
badly that Spinrite couldn't even recover it. So I'm not sure about ...

A quick one, albeit likely to have been flogged to death in this
group:
If the the device file of a disk change as result of access through a
new HBA, relocation to a new SAN or whatever, what would happen to the

At job we have an HP Proliant DL380 G4 High Performance with a RAID 5
array with 4 SCSI disks with 36.4 Gb capacity each one.
Last week one disk failed and the RAID 5 is working without one disk.
My problem and doubt is that HP is not selling anymore 36.4Gb disks,

This is the second time it is happening.
I have lost the LaCie drive. It is not listed anywhere.
It has two partitions on it with many thousands of files.
The first time it happened, I disconnected everything

I have a few questions and I have been googling for a while.
You mentioned that it is a felony to erase a hard disk wrong.  Can you explain further?  Where did you get this information from?
Also you mentioned approved software?  Does the DOD actually have a list?
For instance if I ...