Open Source Storage Software

Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot image that securely wipes hard disk drives (HDDs). DBAN is appropriate for personal use, bulk data destruction, or emergency data destruction for HDDs, but is not recommended for solid-state drives (SSDs), sanitization that requires auditable compliance documentation, or technical support.

BleachBit frees disk space and maintains privacy. Cleans cache, Internet history, temporary files, logs, cookies, Firefox, Google Chrome, Flash, Windows, Linux, and more. Downloads are at www.bleachbit.org and source code is at GitHub.

Naraeon Secure Erase is Secure Erase environment for SATA/NVMe SSDs. Using NVIDIA VGAs and having trouble? see https://www.naraeon.net/en/other-naraeon-products/latest-naraeon-secure-erase/

Automated network based hard disk drives / storage devices erasure is server based software which installs on a central server. Server is connected to network switches and several PXE boot enabled workstations are attached to the network. As soon as the workstation is powered on, it boots off the network via the server and begins wiping all the attached hard disk drives. Once all the hard drives are wiped, data related to each hard disk is stored in the central server’s database. Read WIKI Automated unattended network based data erasure wiping Comprehensive Reporting Web GUI reporting Generates certificate of data erasure Barcodes Labels Graphs Pie / Bar / Line Charts Hard Disks bad sectors & health reporting Hard Disk SMART Data collection Database Driven Distributed System Hard Disk Drives health reports Part Open Source * Friendly GUI Graphical User Interface Mass Hard Disk Drive Destruction Data Wiping HDD Data Eraser Storage Array Data Wipe

ShredBitz is a free and simple file shredder tool that can wipe selected files from any hard disk drive. ShredBitz is written in the java programming language and uses a custom written algorithm for shredding. ShredBitz is a very powerful tool.

ExFormatter is a drive formatter that allows you to do a complete and fast formatting, with advanced formatting tools.

A portable FAT file system stack for embedded devices.

ErAce is software that will over write hard drive 1-100 times. So it fulfils strictest security standards i.e. DOD 5220.22-M. In that way it is impossible to recover data. If You delete files and empty recycle bin it is possible to recover data with recovery software. ErAce will write whole hard disk and put it to zero at last cycle. After process hard drive looks like it was just came out of factory. ErAce works on Pentium or higher and AMD equivalent systems. It works even Intel based Mac computers. It needs 128 Mb of memory. With ErAce you can recycle, sell or throw away hard drive carefree. There is no way other people to recover data, pictures or documents from your disk