Archive for the ‘Data Storage’ Category

EMC Celerra NS20

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

2009-06-18 Initial Post

My experience working with EMC has not been very good. It’s like a big bureaucracy. To deploy our NS20s, there were several different EMC employees involved. (more...)

Securely Wiping Hard Disk Drives on Dell PowerEdge Servers with BartPE and Kill Disk

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

For the past week I’ve been trying to find a product that would do the following:

1.) Boot older Dell PowerEdge servers off a USB drive or CD.
2.) Recognize and access the RAID volumes.
3.) Let me run some type of DoD-level disk wiping utility on the RAID volumes.

We have several older servers that we’d like to give away or trash, but need to wipe the drives before doing so.

It didn’t seem like an obscure request, but after doing a few searches, I was surprised to not find anything that really met my needs. (more...)