How to use Secure Erase and is it on the install CD?
- by Mikey
Supposedly there is some built in hard drive magic called "Secure Erase" which is wildly faster and more secure than "dd if=/dev/zero..."
I am most excited about the speed increase.
There seems to be a GUI for it as part of Parted Magic: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?81321-Secure-Erase-With-bootable-CD-USB-Linux..-Point-and-Click-Method
Is there something like this for Ubuntu? Better yet, is there a way to actually issue this command "manually" like with smartctl or something?