On Mar 27, 2015, at 10:57 PM, Bob Bernstein <poo...@ruptured-duck.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 02:30:47PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Yup. They are like that. Dell *servers* can be bought with empty disks (no OS). No MS tax, and there's no chance of computer fan(s) emitting MS bits and polluting the room. Without the MS tax, the bottom of the line towers are reasonably priced. >> It took dd about 30 hours to wipe the disk in my old Dell. Try a dban CD. It takes a while to wipe a disk, but way less than 30 hours, using DoD algorithms. And it wipes in parallel -- it wipes all the disks it can find on the computer, at the same time, even if they're different sizes; even if some are SCSI and some are SATA. -- Glenn English -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/6a560ff2-c916-46b5-80a4-479fdcad0...@slsware.net
