Why do you need to securely wipe the drives upon receiving the server?  This is usually the responsibility (desire/policy) of an organization PRIOR to getting rid of a system/drive. Are these SAS or SATA disks?  You could attach them to a JBOD controller (PERC 5 does NOT support JBOD/non-RAID), then do the wipe directly on the drive without the need for managing the virtual disks on the controller.
Hello, I recently got a hold of a Dell Poweredge 2950 but before I can do anything with it. I need to securely wipe the hard drives with killdisk(or something similar that will provide logs) and i am having issues with what i believe is the raid controller. I followed these instructions [URL] and came very close but it didn't work. I when I do get on using killdisk for windows, i am able to see the virtual drives all named with the perc 5/i but i later recieve errors when attempting to wipe the drives. I'm starting to think that it may not be possible at this point with the current server but I wanted to see if anyone had advice or experience with this and provide some assistance. Thank You.
Secure Hard Drive wipe for Poweredge 2950