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

On Thursday 24 March 2011 15:29, Lee S. Whatley wrote:
>
> 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 ;)

I can't believe no one's mentioned DBAN yet.

http://www.dban.org

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