D dj2004 Platinum Member Oct 8, 2004 2,246 0 71 Mar 31, 2007 #1 Moved to SATA and am going to sell my old IDE drives. Will DBAN be enough to delete all the information on the drives?
Moved to SATA and am going to sell my old IDE drives. Will DBAN be enough to delete all the information on the drives?
H Heisenberg Lifer Dec 21, 2001 10,621 1 0 Mar 31, 2007 #3 Any program that uses the DOD spec 7-pass overwrite will be more than enough IMHO.
D dj2004 Platinum Member Oct 8, 2004 2,246 0 71 Mar 31, 2007 #4 Alright, thanks guys. Time to rake in the money!
FoBoT No Lifer Apr 30, 2001 63,082 12 76 fobot.com Mar 31, 2007 #5 http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
N nageov3t Lifer Feb 18, 2004 42,808 83 91 Mar 31, 2007 #6 http://www.killdisk.com/ we use the professional version at work before re-using any hard drives for clients, but the free version should work well enough for your needs.
http://www.killdisk.com/ we use the professional version at work before re-using any hard drives for clients, but the free version should work well enough for your needs.
Saint Nick Lifer Jan 21, 2005 17,722 6 81 Mar 31, 2007 #7 dban's mersenne twister is unbelieveably good
F FilmCamera Senior member Nov 12, 2006 959 1 0 Mar 31, 2007 #8 You need to use thermite. There is no other way.
mobobuff Lifer Apr 5, 2004 11,099 1 81 Mar 31, 2007 #12 Why is writing random numbers more secure than just turning all bits to 0?
A atomicacid55 Member Jan 10, 2006 112 0 71 Mar 31, 2007 #13 Originally posted by: mobobuff Why is writing random numbers more secure than just turning all bits to 0? Click to expand... A 0 that's always been a 0 is different from a 0 that used to be a 1 for a long time. Thus if you write 0s to the entire disk, you can still do a low level read that can pick up the changes in the magnetic data. You do random writes so you throw off someone who's trying to read your platters.
Originally posted by: mobobuff Why is writing random numbers more secure than just turning all bits to 0? Click to expand... A 0 that's always been a 0 is different from a 0 that used to be a 1 for a long time. Thus if you write 0s to the entire disk, you can still do a low level read that can pick up the changes in the magnetic data. You do random writes so you throw off someone who's trying to read your platters.
F ForumMaster Diamond Member Feb 24, 2005 7,792 1 0 Mar 31, 2007 #14 yeah DBAN should be enough. 7 passes or above should be sufficient.
MDE Lifer Jul 17, 2003 13,199 1 81 Mar 31, 2007 #15 12 gauge.* *The disk may not work afterwards, YMMV. It worked for me though.