Usually my process is very… hammer and drill related - but I have a family member who is interested in taking my latest batch of hard drives after I upgraded.
What are the best (linux) tools for the process? I’d like to run some tests to make sure they’re good first and also do a full zero out of any data. (Used to be a raid if that matters)
Edit: Thanks all, process is officially started, will probably run for quite a while. Appreciate the advice!
There’s many different ways with different performance tradeoffs. for example for my Homeland server I’ve set it up that I have to enter it every boot, which isn’t often. But I’ve also set it up to run a ssh server so I can enter it remotely.
On my work laptop I simply have to enter it on each boot, but it mostly just goes into suspend.
One could also have the key on a usb stick (or better use a yubikey) and unplug that whenever is reasonable.