There are a couple of KBs on this:
And there is this communities post with useful
information:
These were the timings for a (to DoD/Department of Defense standard) -
disk
sanitize start -c 3 DISK
- on 600GB 15k RPM SAS disks.
TIME = 9 hours 4 minutes and 22 seconds
From the> rdfile
/etc/log/messages
Wed Jan 16 12:32:05 GMT [disk.failmsg:error]:
Disk 0c.00.3 (...): message received.
Wed Jan 16 12:32:05 GMT
[raid.disk.unload.done:info]: Unload of Disk 0c.00.3 Shelf 0 Bay 3 [NETAPP X290_S15K7560A15 NA00] S/N [...] has
completed successfully
...
Wed Jan 16 21:36:27 GMT [disk.sanit.complete:info]:
Disk 0c.00.3 [S/N ...] has completed sanitization.
According to the communities post link above, you can run
sanitize on up to 100 disks at a time. You’ll have to run it two times at
least, since the root disks also need to be sanitized (4a/reinitialize the
system on different set of root disks.) For this system it took 3 visits to
site to complete the work (alas, remote access was not possible):
Day 1: Re-initialize and sanitize spare disks (cannot do
root disks).
Day 2: Re-initialize and sanitize disks we couldn’t do
before.
Day 3: Final checks (“disk sanitize status”) to confirm
all disks are wiped.
Image: Hard Disk
