Ubuntu 24.04.3 x86_64 - quirk with 2 storage drives

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 at 11:31, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Contact, a charity I volunteered for, recently had a fairly modern custom built PC donated, on the condition that the 2 drives inside (sda, 250GiB SSD, sdb 1TB HDD) were wiped.

Over-writing disks with random data is a historical footnote now. It
dates back to the era of 1980s magnetic disks.

Repartition and zero _at most_ is enough.

There are free automatic tools for this which are much quicker and easier, e.g.

https://aban.derobert.net/

I know a lot of people don't believe it. Some remove and destroy
drives. THEY ARE WRONG and they are wasting valuable resources. They
need to be taught better.

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