TThe Aleratec 1:11 HDD Copy Cruiser IDE/SATA is a powerful, standalone hard drive duplicator that can create 11 clone hard drives simultaneously.It can also securely wipe all the data from up to twelve hard disk drives at a time with Secure Erase or a choice of three comprehensive sanitization algorithms: a one-pass wipe, a three-pass wipe with verify, or a powerful seven-pass wipe as recommended by the Department of Defense 5220.22-M specification. The unit is compatible with 3.5" internal IDE and SATA hard disk drives, as well as 2.5" SATA drives. It is also compatible with 2.5" internal IDE drives, mSATA SSDs, Compact Flash (CF) Cards, CFast Cards and 1.8" MicroSATA SSDs with Aleratec adapters part numbers 350116, 350118, 350119, 350120, 350122), not included.For the ultimate in flexibility, the unit can copy from either a SATA or an IDE source drive to any combination of SATA and IDE targets.DuplicationThe 1:11 HDD Copy Cruiser IDE/SATA performs a sector-by-sector copy from a single source hard disk to up to eleven target drives, regardless of brand, operating system or format of the drives. The copy includes partition and boot sector information for a perfect clone.Secure Erase and Overwrite SanitizationResponsible organizations and individuals understand that the sensitive, private data on their disposed or redeployed hard disk drives are vulnerable if those drives are not properly sanitized. The 1:11 HDD Copy Cruiser IDE/SATA these efforts by offering overwrite sanitization, up to and including DoD recommended levels, as well as Secure Erase.Secure Erase is a National Institute of Standards and Technology 800-88 accepted technique for properly purging hard drives. This method is supported by almost all modern SATA, and some IDE, hard disk drives.It also works up to 60% faster than a one-pass overwrite and up to 90% faster than a 7-pass overwrite.