Tim wrote: > Tim: >>> But do you know what the drive does when you use that function? ;-\ > > Bruno Wolff III: >> Reading the drive back in should give you a good idea. If that isn't enough >> of a check for you then you should just be destroying the drive. > > While that would tell you that *you* couldn't read your own drive back, > it doesn't tell you whether someone else could. In the paranoid > security concious arena, you'd need to know exactly how their secure > erase function works, before you could trust it. > Unfortunately, the only way to guarantee complete security is to completely destroy the drive.
Writing 0-zeros or other data may still leave ghost trails a really good expert (say with government connections and the proper hardware) could still read back. James
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