On Tue, April 26, 2011 2:10 pm, Aaron Toponce wrote: > 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
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