🔒 StarTech.com USB 3.0 Hard Drive Eraser Dock for 2.5" & 3.5" SATA SSD HDD + 4Kn Drive - LCD/ RS232 - Secure Erase HDD Wiper Docking Station (SDOCK1EU3P2) - Effortless Data Erasure and Protection Review

Bought to clean drives without using a computer. This well-made device comes well packed in a cardboard box. It is very intuitive to use. Note that cleaning up large drives may take some time. A 7-pass wipe (VSITR) on a 6TB drive takes approximately 2.5 days. Maybe 7 passes is overkill, but be aware. It seems that the bottleneck is basically the drive itself. For example, SSDs wear out faster compared to HDDs.

I only bought this for the disk cleanup feature, so I won't talk about the docking station or the receipt printing features. This, as they say, makes disc erasing easier. I use several smaller Samsung/WD Red SSDs ranging from 256GB to 512GB in a home lab set up to experiment with different filesystems. It completes the one-pass erase in about 15 or 30 minutes. Large discs take time. A single-pass erase of a 10TB Seagate Iron Wolf Pro drive takes approximately 14 hours.

Bought a few months ago, probably erased about a dozen discs by this point. Just push the button and go. I haven't broken anything so far. Much easier than Boot-n-Nuke.

I like the fact that you can clean the hard drive without connecting it to a computer. One of the processes literally took three hours to complete a few wipes. This works well because I've already made 10 floppy disks and it gives you what we put on the end which you can print out if you order a printer with a serial port.

Insert a disc and press OK to erase the data. Very easy to use. Tried esc/pos printer, doesn't work. I will try Epson tm-u220b and report back. Epson tm-u220b works great, got a refurbished unit on ebay for $130.

I only use it as a standalone hard drive cleaner - it's hooked up to an old HP receipt printer. It's been 6 months and I've erased over 300 drives with no problems. I usually use 7-pass (VSITR) on every drive we throw away. Use this process and just to be sure; I connected multiple drives to my computer after cleaning. I then launched several different file recovery programs such as R-Studio; I have never been able to find any trace of the file. Everything works great in the end - insert disc…

If you want to wash it that's great. However, they shouldn't even advertise the print feature. This requires an ESC/P compatible printer. Almost all receipt printers available today (and since Superman III came out) are ESC/POS. Since then, even the ESC/P2 command has appeared. Oh well! Startech really needs to update this to the 2000s. Excellent eraser. Technically very disappointing; It would be great, it's almost mandatory to be able to confirm to customers that the drive was erased by DOD.

I only use this as a standalone hard drive remover - it's hooked up to an old HP receipt printer. It's been 6 months and I've erased over 300 drives with no problems. I usually use 7-pass (VSITR) on every drive we throw away. Use this process and just to be sure; I connected multiple drives to my computer after cleaning. I then launched several different file recovery programs such as R-Studio; I have never been able to find any trace of the file. Everything works great in the end - insert a…

We were happy about it and found other uses for it. If the HD is questionable, this is an additional device to test. However, when I decided to update the firmware, I encountered problems since the original drive had to be installed in the device. It has to be FAT23, which is difficult with large drives. I suggested StarTech make a SATA to USB adapter that would make this task easier. But even more important since we often exchange USB sticks in my region. This would be a great standalone…