OpenText Tableau TD2u Forensic Duplicator
The Information Company
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1. Navigate to
Wipe
(Menu 2), then press the center button to open the wipe specific
settings options. Wipe Type is option 3 in this menu.
2. Select the Wipe Type setting to open the setting selection menu. You can choose
Single Pass
,
Multiple Pass
,
Secure Erase
, or you can choose to have the wipe
startup prompt you for a type at that time.
3. Follow the steps listed in “Connecting hard drives” on page 17 and turn on the TD2u.
No source disk is necessary.
4. From the Main menu, use the arrow keys to navigate back to Wipe (Menu 2).
5. To start the wipe process, press [Yes]. The wiping task starts, and its progress
appears on the display.
Note:
If you connect two or more destination disks of different sizes, the Wipe Disk utility
wipes all disks fully. It may take longer to wipe larger or slower disks.
4.5.1 Single pass wipe
The TD2u writes a constant pattern of zeros (00h) to the destination drive in a single
pass. The TD2u will display on-screen performance and timing metrics during the wiping
process.
You can cancel the wiping operation at any time by pressing the
[Cancel]
soft key.
Note:
The TD2u will not automatically overwrite a DCO or AMA on the destination drive.
4.5.2 Multi-pass wipe
The TD2u performs three write passes on the destination drive. The first pass writes
zeros (00h), the second pass writes ones (FFh), and the third pass writes a randomly
selected constant value between 01h and FEh. The TD2u will display on-screen
performance and timing metrics during the wiping process.
You can cancel the wiping operation at any time by pressing the [Cancel] soft key.
4.5.3 Secure erase
The TD2u is capable of using the SATA Secure Erase command to use the internal
firmware of a hard drive to do a complete low level erasure of the disk contents. This
feature is only supported on SSDs. This limitation is due to a significant number of
rotating media drives not correctly supporting the SATA Secure Erase function, which
results in hard drives that are completely unusable.