If your answer is yes, then this software developed specifically for you. Read through this WIKI page to understand what it can do and how bulk hard disk drive wiping is used.

Network Data Wiping is intelligent data erasing system for companies and small businesses wanting to securely erase data from large number of hard disk drives concurrently.

The solution consists of a server machine, a network switch in isolation and PXE boot enabled workstations.
NDW_Server_Rel_4.5 is fully automated zero touch system and is out of the box ready to use solution. No configuration is required. Simply plug the system together via network and its ready to use.

Key Features

Automation

The key feature of this product is that user should not touch the keyboard or a mouse to use this solution, other than boot workstations via network. This solution is fully automated and out of box ready to use. No configuration is required.

Friendly GUI

A web based easy to use and friendly Graphical User Interface, can be accessed via any browser, IOS and Android compatible.

Database

This solution is database driven and all data collected from HDDs are stored in a central database, that can be further integrated with third party ERP or your existing management software.

Data Reporting

Comprehensive and detailed automated reports for HDD Wipes.

Certificates of Erasure

Automatically generate printable certificates of data erasure, these can be exported to PDF or Excel format.

Mini self-adhesive certificates

A small self-adhesive sticker is automatically printed upon successful wipe, that can be attached to the hard disk drive. This sticker contains HDD Size, HDD Type and name, model number, serial number, wiped date, algorithm used to wipe the HDD, and wipe status.

On Demand mini self-adhesive certificate printing

Sometimes you may lose a barcode label or is torn away from the HDD, in these cases you can scan hdd serial number into GUI and it will let you reprint the barcode label.

ZPL/EPL Printing support

All ZPL compatible printers such as Zebra, UPS, Citizen and other are supported for barcode label printing. You don’t have to install any drivers, ZPL printers are supported as plug and play, and your printer will work out of the box as long as it has USB port. Printers with serial port are not supported.

Automated Grading of HDD

We all know HDDs have mechanical spindles and lots of moving parts, there is a tear and wear as the drive ages. Amongst worst wear and tear are the bad sectors, grading of the HDD is done on case by case basis. If the HDD has greater than 0 current pending sectors that drive is considered B Grade otherwise drive is A Grade.

Automated Health Reporting

Reporting of health such as CRC erros, drive spin up time, drive temperature at the time of wiping, reallocated sectors, pending reallocated sectors, UDMA CRC errors, quality of drive such as power cycle counts and various other information are reported. This information can be downloaded as Excel spreadsheet or printed.

Realtime and Live Monitoring of Wiping / Erasure Workstations*

NDW provides realtime and live monitoring of workstations erasure and wiping progress, realtime progress can be viewed via any web browsers or on the NDW server display monitor.

Capacity

This solution is capable of wiping hard disk drives from 65,450 network attached computers concurrently. Each computer may have multiple hard drives. Calculated capacity of the single NDW server is 2,00,000 hard disk drives concurrently. Capacity is dependent on network speed, faster the network more the capacity.

Realtime and Live Monitoring of Wiping Progress for each HDD

NDW is tailor made to make your life easier by giving you control to view the realtime and live progress of each HDD wipe and erasure status. See below an example of a dashboard displaying live progress of HDD wiping status.

API and Third Party integration – API

“Application Protocol” and integration with third party is possible and it is only available on demand. If you want NDW to integrate into your existing enterprise software, we can help you integrate this software with ease. Please get in touch with the author.

Realtime and Live Monitoring of Entire Network Data Wiping

NDW now allows you to view the live and realtime progress of entire network by using any web browser. A dashboard which display brief information for the entire network's data wiping progress and health. See below an example.

Application Customization

If you want to introduce more features or wanting the application to do more and the way you want, this is possible and can be achieved by customizing the application according to your needs. Please contact us and we will look into your needs.

Comprehensive Information for each Hard Disk Drive

NDW is now equiped with comprehensive and detail information for each hard disk drive, this information can be access via any web browser and it is automatically shown on the NDW server display monitor.

Free version vs Paid version

Free version is limited to 15 hard disk wipes, after this limit is reached software will cease to function and you will no longer be able to use the software or access the GUI. However, paid version allows you to wipe unlimited number of HDDs for infinite period.

HDD Failure Detection and Reporting

NDW has been completely redesigned and redeveloped with the capability to detect HDD failures and provide real time reporting and progress for such failures. HDD failures are detected realtime and reported to provide accurate information in time, this allow you to make right and effective decisions.

New and Improved Wiping Workstation GUI

NDW has been completely redesigned and redeveloped with tons of new features as well as new GUI on the workstation which provides realtime and important information related to each HDD.

Automatic Rotation of Widgets on Wiping Workstation

NDW now displays both smart information as well as realtime progress of each hard disk drives. Displays are automatically rotated between brief over all wiping progress and comprehensive informtaion.

Benefits.

• Automated fully unattended network based data wiping.
• Comprehensive Reporting
• Client based reporting
• Automated and centralized certificate of data erasure management
• Graphics Charts
• Hard Disk Drive bad sectors reporting
• Hard Disk Smart Data collection and storing in central database
• Hard Disk Drives health reports
• Friendly GUI Graphical User Interface

Limitations:

• All types of storage devices are supported, but USB flash drives such as USB sticks are not recorded in the database due to USB not having a serial number.
• All type of RAID arrays are supported but reporting data is not collected for RAID arrays. This feature will be added in upcoming release.
• Free version is limited to 15 hard disk drives. After this limit software will cease to function. If you want unrestricted copy of this software please get in touch with the author.

How the solution works.

Automated NDW “Network HDD data Wiping” is a complete solution that has operating system and server software which is installed on a computer. Server is connected to a network switch 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 have been wiped, a mini self-adhesive data destruction certificate is printed and data related to each hard disk will is stored in the central server’s database, Data can be accessed using web GUI interface.

(Self-adhesive mini data destruction certificate that is printed automatically after each HDD data wipe that you can attach to HDD).

You can see above label it has following codes.

PCC: Power Cycle Counts, lower the number better the hard drive.
REC: Reallocated Event Count (Large number of REC meaning more tear and wear)
CPS: Current Pending Sector “This is related to bad sectors, 0 is better any other figure is bad.
OU: Offline Un-correctable “Offline sectors that cannot be corrected or reallocated”

(See the network diagram below).

Network Diagram