Three passes with this should be enough so no home user would be able to go back and find your stuff, although i have to ask.. Who are you giving an HDD to that would know how to find old Data?
Making money out of it. LolOriginally Posted by lapengu
Three passes with this should be enough so no home user would be able to go back and find your stuff, although i have to ask.. Who are you giving an HDD to that would know how to find old Data?
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one pass of dban will write 0 - 1 - 0 to every sector, it's already overkill because writing 0 on every sector is enough to destroy all the data.Originally Posted by hawkeye071292
My favorite way is to just drill press the hard drive about 3-5 times...
Macs actually do what they call a "government wipe" which is formatting and reinstalling the OS 7x before finishing. All completely automated (Wish windows would add that)
2x passes with dban should be more than enough. I usually dban 3 times (and about 5 drives) at a time at work. Just hit it and check it the next day.