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Important: Due to a new report digital signature, the Blancco Drive Eraser releases v6.6.0 and higher are not compatible with the Blancco Management Console 4.7.1 or lower (report importing and sending will fail consistently).

  • If you are using a local BMC and want to upgrade to BDE 6.6.0 or higher, please upgrade first to BMC 4.8.0 or higher.
  • If you are using the Blancco Cloud, it is fully compatible with BDE 6.6.0 and higher.
  • The BMC 4.8.0 and higher are fully compatible with all BDE releases (< 6.6.0 and >= 6.6.0).

Highlighted features:

  • ALBUS-4829, ALBUST-553 - Limit the maximum amount of simultaneous erasures (a.k.a. "Batch Erasure").
    • In a nushell, 100 drives can be erased in e.g. 2 batches of 50 drives, 5 batches of 20 drives or any other combination.
    • The operator should simply select the drives to erase, set the maximum amount of simultaneous erasures and run the erasure, the rest will be handled automatically.
  • ALBUS-6600 - Faster NIST Purge on large HDDs.
    • The "NIST 800-88 Purge" standard has been optimized on HDDs and the erasure duration can be divided by 6 on some drives.
  • ALBUS-6641, ALBUST-558 - Configurable threshold on drive speed to fail the erasure.
    • BDE can be configured to fail the erasure if the erasure speed is slow and below a set threshold.
  • ALBUS-6628 - Per-drive custom field values can be filled in through a job specification.
    • This achieves sending e.g. an Asset ID per drive from the Asset Management System to BDE and keeping the report information complete.
  • ALBUS-6491, ALBUST-539 - Enable the Two-Way Communication on BDE HW Images.
    • The 2WC is now possible on BDE_HW images that are meant to be permanently installed on an erasure station.
  • ALBUS-6385 - Support for TCG Cryptographic Erasure on SCSI/SAS drives.
    • The Trusted Computing Group is an organization that develops open standards for trusted computing platforms.
    • BDE's "NIST 800-88 Purge" erasure standard supports both the TCG Opal Crypto Erase and the TCG Enterprise Crypto Erase commands on SCSI/SAS drives.
  • ALBUS-6642 - Blink all drives with one button.
    • All connected drives can be located (blinking their LED) with one button in the BDE UI to achieve an easy physical identification.
  • ALBUS-6678, ALBUST-572 - Spin down idling HDDs.
    • Any HDDs that is idling (not being erased, already erased, queued, etc.) can be spun down (they stop rotating) after 5 minutes of inactivity.

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