Drive eRazer Ultra

I purchased the older Wiebetech drive Erazer several years ago and while it was effective it was very slow and only worked on ATA drives. This new model is very fast and can earase both ATA and SATA drives. It is a quality product and very effective with a several erase options depending on the safety you want.

I use this a few times a year at work as we recycle computers.

The setup to erase data of a hard drive is not very complicated when using this eraser. The processing time is quite long but not intolerable. I used it to erase four hard drives. I had to take out the hard drive in order to erase the data in 3 of the computers. It was successful in erasing the data in three out of the four hard drives. There was an error when I did the fourth one and I was unable to correct the error. That hard drive was the oldest which I bought over ten years ago.

I have several Terabyte sized drives that I do not want to destroy but have sensitive data on them that needs to be erased before they can be released. When the DataPort arrived I opened it to get started.First, it does work and works well. You have to remember that you are not going to wipe clean a terabyte drive in 5 minutes. It will take 4 - 6 hours to do a DOD approved cleaning of the drive.I did find the instructions to be lacking but if you kept the default settings, which should work for most applications, you can just turn it on and get going. Changing them will take a little trial and error. In the manufacturers effort to keep it simple, the made this a little more complicated. Also, there could have been more explanation of the various algorithms that the unit is capable of.

Quite simply, it doesn't work. It's expensive and it is completely worthless. Don't buy it unless you are looking for a rather unattractive paperweight.

Bought one of these a couple years ago and was just about to wipe my 12th drive and the screen started getting spotty and letters were missing and now the screen is a blank and blue. I have no idea what it is doing if anything. Now useless. Worked great for the first 11 hard drives though.

I bought this to wipe a stack of about 30 PATA drives I've been collecting over the years as I upgraded computers. It worked fine on newer drives, but I couldn't get it to recognize any drive smaller than 320GB. I have a dozen IDE drives left varying in size from 60MB to 200GB, and it won't erase any of them. It just says 'searching for drive.'

Wiped 2 drives with total ease! Started out with the Quick Erase method, and it took only an hour on 250GB. After that I implemented the DoD Sanitize wiping method and that was surprisingly fast as well at just under 4 hrs for 250 GB. The Drive eRazor Ultra is definitely going to be sticking around as I don't have the time for software wiping tools, which take much longer (esp for DoD methods). I'm exceedingly happy with this purchase!