Hi..

I've got an argument going on that I need a little help settling. I have a few PowerEdge servers ranging from 23xx's to 43xx's. We are looking at giving them away to charity and I need to ensure that all the information on them has been removed.

I'm convinced that I can complete a low level format on them using the Raid Controller software to make remove all of my data. The reasoning behind this is because they were all originally part of a RAID 1 / 5 etc config the data would have been scattered over different drives..

My colleague has said I need to perform a scan which will write 0 and 1’s to the drive but doesn’t a low level format do something similar anyway.. Hence why its low level not a standard Windows Format..