Technical data

1.4 Edition overview
FE BE SE PE EE
Supported standards
VSITR
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BSI-GSB
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ACSI 33
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AFSSI 5020
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AR380-19
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DoD5200.28M
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DoD5220.22M
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NCSC-TG-025
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HMG IS5 (Baseline)
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HMG IS5 (Enhanced)
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GOST P50739-95
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RCMP TSSIT OPS-II
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Bruce Schneier's method
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Roy Pfitzner's method
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Peter Gutmann's method
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Special modes
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Single partition deletion
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SmartDefectSkip
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MultiDelete (4x, 8x, 16x)
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Deletion speed
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up to 90 MB/s and more ● ● ● ● ●
up to 1000 MB/s and more
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License scope
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private use ● ● ● ● ●
professionals/corporations
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technician license
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1)
SATA hard disks: They have to be connected to one of the SATA controllers supported by HDShredder and the
controller has to be configured accordingly (3.3.2 SATA/SATA-II controllers).
2)
Hard disks above 2048 GB: HDShredder supports hard disks larger than 2048 GB (2 Terabytes).
3)
CompactFlash via IDE: HDShredder supports CF media in TrueIDE mode.
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SCSI hard disks: require one of the SCSI host adapters supported by HDShredder (3.4 SCSI).
5)
Deletion modes: You find further information regarding the different modes in chapter 6.5 Deletion methods.
• quick & easy: simple quick deletion, no further knowledge required.
• automatic: choose deletion mode according to required security level, no special knowledge required.
• standardized: deletion according to one of 15 international security standards.
• user defined: specify your own deletion patterns with up to 199 deletion cycles (6.5.3 Custom).
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Special modes: HDShredder knows special working modes to increase deletion speed. Further information about
these modes is to be found in chapter 5.9 Selecting the options.
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Deletion speed: Due to technical differences, there is an upper limit for the actually achievable deletion speed:
> 90 MB/sec: up to 133 MB/s with Ultra-DMA mode 6, up to 300 MB/sec with SATA II.
> 1000 MB/sec: Mass-deletion of up to 16 drives at a time.
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License scope: see also chapter 8.1 Terms of license.
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