Re: [Nolug] Why geeks don't wipe hard drives...

From: Lee S. Whatley <lee_at_whatley.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:29:50 -0600 (MDT)
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1103241426490.24090@megs37.100mwh.com>

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Ron Johnson wrote:
> But (most of) the devices still work. I'm just trying to consolidate...

If *you* are still planning to use the drives then you don't need to wipe
them, just do a mkfs on top of the old stuff.

If you are planning on selling them or giving them away, then a 1 pass
wipe isn't really protecting your data from anything...you're gonna need
to spend waay more than 3 hours to do a "secure" wipe ;)
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