On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 02:03:35PM -0600, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > My conclusion is that if your data is so valuable that whoever, if > anyone, has this capability would be willing to use it to get your > data, then, and only then is a single 0s pass insufficient to destroy > your data while leaving the drive in-tact. Because if you happen to > have data that is that valuable, you aren't going to be deleting > drives to protect it anyways--you are going to be physically > destroying the drives. Thus, unless you're a super secret spy or a > super nasty arch-villain-of-the-world, a single 0s pass is enough.
This has been rehashed one hundred times at least, on various threads I've been on, so meh. However, I would _love_ to see hard drives erased using this method, or similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_bMYFmFGg -- . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . . . o . o o o . o . o o . . o o o o . o . . o o o o . o o o
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