Any one got any advice on a good case for a tower to use for wiping disks. would prefer the disks to be able to be inserted without opening the case. also capability for various types eg. old server drives and sata drives would be great.
Sliger has this 4u server case that seems perfect for your use case:
You can leave the front exposed and just push in your 3.5 inch and 2.5 inch drives. You need to put some mounting screws on the side of the drives though.
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can a 5.56 go through a hdd?
So far M193 and M855 go right through with no problem
Sadly not a US DoD standard.
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I occasionally need to read/write to SCA80 drives enough that I installed one of those “easy swap” bays into a free 5.25" slot.
If you’re going to be doing anything beyond “normal” SATA/SAS, you’ll need to get a case with 5.25" slots and get the appropriate “easy swap” bays that slot in.
That’s kind of impressive for their weight.
How many disks at the same time? Old drives in the sense of PATA?
It may be difficult to find a solution for the tower that will have SATA/PATA, but there are external USB docking modules.
And stand-alone solutions
As for these USB docking stations, I would avoid them(not counting the standalone ones) if you need to erase more than one drive at a time. Unless each is connected to a separate USB controller on the PCI cards. Erasing multiple drives at the same time via a single USB controller will be painfully slow.
If this can be a solution without a tower, then a few pcie-usb cards and a few appropriate dock/bay usb-sata (pata) or a dedicated stand-alone device.
If there must be a tower, then a tower of the appropriate size with the appropriate number of 5.25 and…
Which tower to choose… look at what is available in your geo and choose the one with the highest 5.25
And if you still need PATA but they are sporadic, add a USB dock for them.
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If the device in question says “Seagate” on it, just use it normally and the data will very quickly become unrecoverable.
If it says “Hitachi” on it, I can’t help you. I can’t get any of my Hitachi drives to die, and I’ve been abusive to them for 15+ years.
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You can just downright destroy the disks by drilling three holes. I do not know if running them through an electromagnet still works, but that might be another way to fry it completely.
This might do the trick, a heck of a lot cheaper than rifle rounds, and legal in many more countries, too:
Of course, if you still want to use the drives afterwards, better think of a different solution.
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