On Jun 17, 2005, at 3:02 PM, George Hozendorf wrote:
What, if any, is the advantage of using Secure Empty Trash over just Empty Trash. I optimize my HD every 30 days, so I don't see a real advantage, since it takes much, much longer to empty the trash when using Secure Empty Trash.
Secure empty trash overwrites the parts of the disk the file used to take up, empty trash just unlinks the file. In this case a raw disk sector reader could recover data from 'trashed' files.
The rewriting of the disk is what takes longer with 'secure empty trash', and is probably overkill for most folks.
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