Those standards are suspect to start with, but you should be fine. I've done it for my employer on machines that haven't had a disk failure in years, which is unusual seeing as they're HP :P
One wipe is really enough though, but standards are standards unfortunately :/ ----- Original Message ----- From: peter <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 15 May 2012 16:55:42 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 35 pass erase Part of this needs to invoke the 1 step removed rule, but partly it is a general question as well. I have purchased my first intel, a MacPro 3.1 on eBay. There has been some delay in the shipping because the origional owner wanted to be sure of security, and ran a 35 pass erase on both HDDs, from the leopard install disk. One drive is the origional and the other is a 1TB. My understanding is that this writes 0s then 1s alternately to every drive sector for 35 passes. As this is way more than years of normal ussage would do, what can I expect for drive life out of these things. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
