I work for an NGO, we provide secure erase services to reuse HDDs, they send us many disks (up to 500), we erase them, fill a form, reuse them. We fill them with just zeroes, filling with random data is too slow.
The problem is that we need to manage ~10 disks at the same time (same computer, they have 6 SATA + 4 PCI SATA), now we use the console, we have set up 12 virtual consoles (Ctr+F1-F12), but it's a bit confusing. Just imagine, we have to use /dev/disk/by-path/[device], because normal drive letters do not correspond to a particular SATA socket (let's say, 'sda' and so).
I want to develop a GUI to safely erase the disks, in a future it will get more complex (recording serial numbers, sending to a local DB, printing labels...), but for now we only need to erase the disks easily.
Personally, I have some experience with Qt5, I have discovered this library, but it lacks documentation. I have tried dde-device-formatter, I wonder if libudisks2-qt5 is able to erase a whole disk.
Well, could you please give me some piece of advice? I need to be able to have the right tools to begin with the development of the app.