How to securely wipe all disks in an XP1024 chasis

[Norman Ellis_1]

Anyone know of or could suggest the best and most effective way to securely destroy all data on every disk inside a decommissioned XP1024 chassis?

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[IBaltay · Accepted solution]

Hi,
this could be your choice:
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/xpdatashred/index.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

[Bill Rothanburg]

Part of this depends upon your business requirements, such as certification of erasure and/or specific methods.

It might be as simple as having the CE do a DCI (Define, Configure, and Install) on the array which will reformat all of the disks.

If you need something stronger, then provisioning luns to a server and using a DOD level wipe will probabally be your course of action. DBAN is a free application that will do this, but I haven't used it on a fibre channel based disk array myself. There are also commercial programs and services out there.

[Norman Ellis_1]

We use DBAN on servers today and it does a great job. I'll look into the option of using it.

Thanks for the reply..

[Norman Ellis_1]

We are looking into using the HP StorageWorks XP Data Shredder Software to securely wiping all disks in our XP array.