HDShredder 7
HDShredder deletes the contents of hard disks and other mass storage media reliably at the physical level. HDShredder can also be applied to individual partitions and the user can select to perform the deletion according to international security standards. HDShredder works independent of partition layout, file system and operating system. It also works with proprietary formats which otherwise would be inaccessible.
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Editions
HDShredder’s editions build on one another. A higher edition will include the features of every preceding edition.
The following matrix compares the most important features of the different editions.
| Features | FE | BE | SE | PE | EE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deletion methods | |||||
| Secure high-speed deletion | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Highly secure deletion | no | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| International deletion standards | no | no | yes | yes | yes |
| User defined deletion methods | no | no | no | yes | yes |
| Hardware | |||||
| IDE/ATA/SATA hard disks | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| SATA / SATA II / eSATA (AHCI) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| USB 1.1 (UHCI, OHCI) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| USB 2.0 (EHCI) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| new: USB 3.0 (XHCI) | no | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| SCSI hard disks | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Firewire / IEEE1394 (OHCI) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| new: UEFI-BIOS & GPT partitions | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Features | |||||
| Entire drive deletion | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Single partition deletion | no | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Media > 2 Terabytes | no | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| new: Command line interface (CLI) | nein | nein | nein | ja | ja |
| Security levels | 1 | 3 | 18 | 217 | 217 |
| Performance (GB/min, sample values*) | 6* | 60* | |||
| Technologies | |||||
| Iterative deletion patterns | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Random deletion patterns | no | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| SmartDefectSkip | no | no | no | yes | yes |
| Deletion report | no | no | no | yes | yes |
| Sector area deletion | no | no | no | yes | yes |
| MultiDelete (4x, 8x, 16x) | no | no | no | no | yes |
| Usage | |||||
| Private use | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Companies/Institutions | no | no | yes | yes | yes |
| Technician license | no | no | no | yes | yes |
*) The specified values reflect the performance of average internal HDDs or low-end SSDs. The actual speed strongly depends on the hardware used. It ranges by a factor of 1,000 (from slow USB sticks at < 5 MB/sec to fast NVMe at > 5 GB/sec).
Data sheet
You can download the data sheet for HDShredder as PDF file and print it.
Manual
You can download the manual for HDShredder as PDF file and print it.
Updates & Upgrades
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