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Risk management 101. When dealing with data destruction, you should keep
in mind the concequences of not destroying the data. If the drive contains
missile guidance data or personal information on patients in a medcal facility
then you better destroy the drive. If, on the other hand, the drive contains
embarassing photos you took at the New Year's Eve party then there are many
'secure erase' programs available for free on the internet that will do a more
than adequate job.
Writing to every sector 3 times does not
make the data unreadable to someone with the proper
tools.
Greg
From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 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. A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! |
