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Hello,
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:41:04PM +0100, Ian Grody wrote:
> Most software recovery will have problems recovering data after doing a simple zeroing of a drive. Truecrypt does this prior to filling with random data and further xeroing after would give most hardware recoveries problems.
Indeed, it's been demonstrated that just writing over the whole
drive once will give any professional data recovery company severe
problems:
http://hostjury.com/blog/view/195/the-great-zero-challenge-remains-unaccepted
Anything beyond that is almost getting into tin foil head gear
territory[1]. So DBAN or this Truecrypt plan seem more than
sufficient.
I dispose of around 4-6 hard drives per year at the moment and it's
a bit of a hassle doing this. Still it means that the drives can be
reused by good causes, otherwise I'd probably just take a hammer to
them to be honest.
Cheers,
Andy
[1] If you're concerned about a three letter agency diverting
a significant portion of their resources into reconstructing
your data, I don't think we are qualified to advise you. :-)
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