Re: photo storage question

[PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx]

I was thinking about erasing the data so I could sell them or give them away. But it sound like it is not worth the effort.

The latest Maxtor software allows one to write 0 and 1 to the whole drive and I do have a magnet some where. I don't have smelter but that sounds like the best way to recycle them.

I took apart one Jaz drive and it had a nice shiny disk inside. I assume it was something other than aluminum because of the weight.

Roy

 

 

 

 

 

In a message dated 2/15/2009 11:08:47 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, jds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

I don't know if the reference to CIA procedures is correct or not.  But, writing over all the sectors on a drive three times will make the data virtually unrecoverable.
If someone wants to spend enough money on the problem, then they still can retrieve most of the original data.

OTH, I know of another government agency that shall remain unnamed that just puts the drives in a furnace and melts them down to slag.  Their data is guaranteed unrecoverable.

 

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