StarTech.com 4 Bay SSD/HDD Hard Drive Eraser, 2.5/3.5" SATA, Hostless Standalone Secure Erase, Disk Sanitizer, Hardware Wiper Erasing Tool, 9 Modes, RS232 Printer Port, NIST/DOD, LCD, TAA (SATERASER4)

Works great! Love the log function. Would not print to a newer RongTa printer, which I had to return. I never could get that printer baud rate to match (both need to be 9600). As far as I can tell, baud rate cannot be adjusted on StarTech erase machine. I ended up getting a used Epson TM-T20 serial printer on EBay. No USB or Wi-Fi on printer. Don’t need either. There was no need to program printer; worked by just connecting the serial cable. Also, no need to mess with printer dip switches, which the Epson did not have. Make sure the printer comes with a 9-pin serial cable, which is what the StarTech machine requires.

I use this as just a standalone Hard Drive Eraser – it’s hooked up to an old HP Printer for printing receipts.It’s been 6 months and have wiped well over 300 drives with no problems. Usually I run the 7-Pass (VSITR) on any drive we are throwing out. Using that process and just to make sure; I have hooked up several drives to my computer after a wipe. Then I ran some different File Recovery programs against them, such as R-Studio; I have never been able to find a trace of a file.In the end, works great – put a drive in, make a selection for wiping method and come back 4 to 24 hours later and you’re done (larger the drive longer the run time).

I'm a big fan of StarTech products. I've been using their adapters for many years. I find their line of secure HDD/SSD erasers to be a little inconsistent. Ideally, I wanted to buy one product that did EVERYTHING and was willing spend more. Unfortunately, I ended up with two products. There were a number of differences between the two products (e.g. the menus, the displays, look and feel, one worked with the IDE to SATA adapter and the other didn't, etc.) The biggest rub on this one was not knowing the percentage complete as it was running. The other product I own (SDOCK1EU3P2) does. In conclusion, this product works well and does a lot (duplication, secure erase, dock, etc.) but I'd still like a countdown to progress for time management purposes. Hopefully in their next product.

I had this for a couple of years and while it was extremely slow to erase a drive depending on which method was used, it did a good job and has lots of options on how to erase. However, because of the lack of speed in erasing, I would only use it when I had to document a drive erasure to a client. So it was only used 3-4 times per year... a total of about 10 times. The printing feature is, as has been mentioned elsewhere, outdated since it only works with serial ESC/P printers... these are rare and expensive for what they are... a simple receipt printer but it does act as confirmation of erasure for customers that require that.Anyhow, the reason for the review now and the title of the review "until it doesn't work at all" is because after a few years, I went over to use the device and it just had a "Self-check Faile" on the screen. I contacted tech support and the only answer that I got was "the chipset is defective, if it's under warranty, we can replace it but there is no other repair option".There is no reason for this device to fail... there's no moving parts, so no wear and tear; it's on surge protection, so no electrical surges... it just stopped working. The tech even told me that the MTBF is 8640 hours... that's less than 1 year if it's left on 24x7. That's just not good enough for a device with a premium price tag... and I believe that $267 for a single bay single purpose erase is a premium price.I paid $267 for this device and erased 10 devices - that means that I paid over $26 per device erasing... I will not make that mistake again. Looking for another manufacturer to try out.

I like this Stardock Drive Eraser dock. Easy to use, and always do a greate job. Very good quality also.Its only one thing i didnt like. The eraser dock couldnt handle WD VelociRaptor hard-drive ?The eraser dock become dangerous hot, and couldnt finish the eraser job with WD Velociraptor disks.But the Eraser dock works fine on all other disks.Another thing ... The price is to expensive for many customer.This item could sell much more if the price was lower.I almost canseled my order because of the expensive price, not because of the quality of the product.I hope more people could afford to buy this greate product, and experiance the eraser dock tool on their hard-drives. Blessings from Tony - Norway

I needed a good way to erase many old drives, this really fits the bill. I was using an old PC and a program to erase the drives, I wanted something that was easy and didn't take up much space. It take a while to do a 3-pass DoD erase but I need the data from the company's pc to be totally gone. A 1 tb can take 5-7 hours. I also have it connected to my work PC so I can check the data on it at first. Overall just a good device.

This is perfect example of something that only does one thing and does it extremely well. I had a pile of hard drives I needed securely erased. I just plopped them in and followed the easy instructions and then walked away and let it do its thing. I erased 10 hard drives in a row and encountered no problems. Note: it is not fast process 4TB WD Blue 3.5 inch hard drives took a little over 23 hours to wipe with a 3 pass DOD secure erase.

I bought this strictly for the drive erasing feature, so I won't talk about it's capabilities as a dock or print receipt function. It does was it says, makes erasing drives easy.I'm using some smaller 256 - 512 GB Samsung/WD Red SSDs in a home lab set up for experiments with different file systems. It completes a 1 pass erase on those in about 15 and 30 minutes respectively. Larger drives take a while. Doing a 1 pass erase of a 10 TB Seagate Iron Wolf Pro HDD takes about 14 hours.

My StarTech eraser arrived well packaged; "the construction build is outstanding" and menu selection is more than sufficient to do the job. I even used recovery method's in attempt to recover information from the drive after it was sanitized and failed. The unit lived up to it's name and passed with flying colors, I highly recommend this item when it comes to sensitive information removal.

Found this when my old hard drive eraser decided to give up the ghost. Works at the same speed (around 4 hours for a 500GB drive on HMG-IS5). I've done around 30 drives now, all sanitised without a problem. Checked using a software recovery tool and cant get a thing back after a 36 hour deep scan, so works brilliantly.

This is an excellent piece of kit - we've had it running 24/7 since it was purchased and it does the business. The only limitation is the speed of the drives - it's about 1.5 hrs to do a 160gb laptop drive, and 4hrs to do a 7200 speed 500gb drive.. not the fault of the device, but for a thorough wipe, it's worth the time

tres bien

Parfait excepté un bug qui fait qu'il arrive qu'on ai pas la progression de l'effacement sur l'affichage.