Permanently Erasing Your Drive? A Single 0 Pass Is Enough.

 

 

Permanently Erasing Your Drive? A Single 0 Pass Is Enough.

 

 

 

 

 

One thing I have noticed when reading some articles across the Internet regarding data destruction is many recommendations are on the ‘paranoid level’.

I have seen articles/forum posts where people talk about 0 writing their hard drive 5+ times and then taking it apart and smashing the disks.

First of all, 99.999% of the data out there is worthless to anyone except the owner and second, 99.999% of people who would try to steal this data would pick the

‘low hanging fruit’ where they find a drive which has data on it and exploit it.

The point of this is simply if you are getting rid of a hard drive with important data on it,

0 writing it one time is enough.

I’ve written a tip about this in the past which references the Ultimate Boot CD as a great resource for easily getting access to the tools you need.

Let’s be realistic,

nobody is going to be running your hard drive through rediculously sophisticated and expensive hardware to try to steal your data.

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