Drive eRazer erases all data from a hard drive
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 11, 2007 at 9:39pm
WiebeTech has unveiled a hardware solution to erase data from 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch IDE/PATA and SATA hard drives. The Drive eRazer is a stand-alone solution that doesn’t require a computer.
Priced at US$99.95 for the standard version, it writes data at a sustained rate of more than 35MB/second. A 250GB drive would be fully erased in under two hours, according to James Wiebe, president/CEO of WiebeTech. It’s also very easy, he adds. Simply connect it to a drive and flip a switch.
Drive eRazer writes over every bit of a drive. After it’s done, there’s nothing left to recover, Wiebe says. A standard single-pass mode writes one time acrossthe whole disk, deleting blocks including partitions and Host Protected Areas. Verification is also performed.
For those who want even more assurance, a $149.95 Pro model is available that’s capable of more than one pass with random characters. It deletes all blocks, including partitions and Host Protected Areas, even ones normally invisible to operating systems. It automatically checks for and removes DCOs and writes to every sector of the disk using different data each pass. Verification is done after the last pass.
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