Dry well EMC CX4 - 120 disks before the gift

We have an installed SC8000 Compellent, and I would like to find a way to erase (wipe of multipass DOD) data from the drives before you make a donation or surplussing safely our old CX4-120.

I came across this old thread, but it's a little bit conclusive and unresolved:

Anyone else have ideas on how to do better to achieve this? Also, I can't imagine there would be any sensitive data that would be on the OS on the first five drives SAN, right?

Thank you for all the ideas, people.

The easiest way is to implement raid groups 1 or more with readers supporting a raid 0 on electromagnetic compatibility (16 my head) or a maximum number. Then create a LUN, set up 1 server with a connection to the CX4-120, put the server and the logical unit number in the same storage group and use some server software to wipe the drives.

The reason for raid 0 is 2 times; I guess that you are not using raid 0 in production, so readers will be cleaned by the RAID 0 array, but it also gives you the fastest writing time while you let the software do the washing.

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