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.
Improvements and bug fixes:
ALBUS-6792 - In some occasions, the remapped sectors were not being detected properly and the remapped sectors count was missing from the BDE UI.
ALBUS-6714 - The booting parameters that have been used to boot BDE are now reported.
ALBUS-6026, ALBUS-6244 - Pressing the "Refresh Drive List" button duplicated the list of currently detected drives in some environments.
ALBUS-6211 - The erasure got stuck at some point on some SSDs such as WD Green SSD M2 or SanDisk SSD Plus.
ALBUS-6761 - The estimation of the erasure duration has been improved on erasures executing the TCG Crypto Erase command.
ALBUS-6684 - The wireless adapter "Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 8260" failed often with the error "unknown network error".
ALBUS-6632 - Sanitize (purge) commands failed on drives connected to HP Smart Array RAID controller P410 and P420.
ALBUS-6517 - Some erasure settings were not stored between appliance boot-ups.
ALBUS-6254, ALBUS-6613 - Inputting data in custom fields (remote control) was not possible in some cases.
ALBUS-6519 - The connection with the embedded BMC was not established automatically after HW appliance was booted.
ALBUS-6644, ALBUS-6793, ALBUS-6746 - In some server environments, the mouse was not visible in the UI.
ALBUS-5889 - The maximum or nominal processor speeds were sometimes detected as being 0Hz.
ALBUS-6774 - Some exceptions related to verifications and thresholds were repeated in some corner cases.
ALBUS-6627, ALBUS-6553 - Erasure or verification were failing on drives connected to LSI controllers.
ALBUS-6512 - The printer settings were visible even if the BDE_HW installation had an external BMC.
ALBUS-6468 - BDE_HW could not be installed on logical drives.
ALBUS-6313 -The auto-backup messages in the UI have been rephrased.
ALBUS-6547, ALBUS-6548 - Drives disconnected during the erasure or verification were failing without any clear reason or could crash the software.
ALBUS-6750 - Adding detection for a new hybrid drive.
ALBUS-6711 - The battery "socket" icon was not shown on Apple MacBooks.
Please request the Detailed Release Notes from your Sales or Support Representative.
Blancco Drive Eraser version 6.11.0 and Drive Eraser Configuration Tool 2.11.0 have been released!
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).
Highlighted features:
Improvements and bug fixes:
Please request the Detailed Release Notes from your Sales or Support Representative.