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IDE hard drives from either desktop or notebook computers will be erased to the U.S. Department of Defense specification DoD 5220-22M explained below. Prices Hard drives still in computer $20.00 per hard drive. Hard drives out of computer $15.00 per hard drive.Wipe OUT DoD The Wipe Out Department of Defense operation is designed to completely erase data from hard disk drives. Using ordinary “DELETE” and “ERASE” commands, data on a hard drive remains accessible to a variety of intrusive procedures. The WipeOut erasure technique provides a solution to this problem using a series of null-coded overwrites that completely remove all data from the hard drive. The Wipe Out DoD operation is designed to meet U.S. Department of Defense specification DoD 5220-22M regarding the sanitization of hard drives. Wipe Out DoD is set by default at the government-standard: Three iterations completely overwrite a hard drive six times. Each iteration makes two write-passes over the entire drive: n the first pass inscribes ONEs (1) over the drive surface (in hex: 0xFF);n the next pass inscribes ZEROes (0) onto the surface (in hex 0x00).After the third iteration, a seventh pass writes the government-designated code “246” across the drive (in hex 0xF6) - which is then followed by an 8th pass that inspects the drive with a Read-Verify review.
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