Does any body know which of the wipe methods it has will be used when Autonuke is selected? Also can more than one HD be selected at a time with Autonuke?
According to here, autonuke does a DoD Short wipe on all drives. The short wipe is default and I do not think it can be changed unless you go into interactive mode. DBAN can take quite a bit of time on a large hard drive. If you have a drive that supports it, you can use HDDerase which is a lot faster. HDDerase.exe accesses an ATA disk drive’s internal Secure Erase commands to wipe a disk clean.
If you don't unplug internal drives and Dban see's them it will wipe them. I have been using it for a while but its slow.
Secure Erase (HDDErase) 88 minutes on a 250GB HDD. If you want faster wipes you will have to buy a HDD that has built in encryption which supports Enhanced Secure Erase. Then wiping will be 1 second per 100GB. Secure Erase is accessable through Linux's hdparm command or HDDErase in UBCD under Wiping
What year did the HD's have built in encryption? Just curious, but say you had a MBR rootkit this Enhanced Secure Erase would kill it?
Secure Erase is available on all drives since 2001/2002. Enhanced Secure Erase became available later. Not sure when. If you paid $100 or less for your drive new, then probably does not have built in encryption. Secure Erase and Enhanced Secure Erase are equivalent to physical destruction. Everything gone, with speed.
