Comment Bulk erasure (Score 1) 166
It is hard for me to believe that no one posting has yet understood the question. The issue is that the querent has failed piece of hardware, under warranty, but doesn't want to return it for replacement fear that the data could be recovered by a highly motivated party.
The answer seems clear. Even if you hard a piece of equipment to erase a drive's contents, you would not be able to verify that the erasure has occurred without the drive functioning in the first place. Therefore, there is unlikely to be a satisfactory solution.
Perhaps you would be better served by writing data to the drives in an encrypted form. Thus, after a future failure, under warranty or not, you could be confident that data recovery would be unlikely.
The answer seems clear. Even if you hard a piece of equipment to erase a drive's contents, you would not be able to verify that the erasure has occurred without the drive functioning in the first place. Therefore, there is unlikely to be a satisfactory solution.
Perhaps you would be better served by writing data to the drives in an encrypted form. Thus, after a future failure, under warranty or not, you could be confident that data recovery would be unlikely.
