How much wiping do you do? :)

[tkrabec at gmail.com (Tim Krabec)]

I've got drives as well, I need to check to see if they are single wipe
compatable



On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:21 PM, James Costello <genesiswave at gmail.com>wrote:

> KC's local e-cycler Surplus Exchange wipes their drives using the DOD 7
> pass method, they may have a few small drives appropriate for this.
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Tim Krabec <tkrabec at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Let's do a test, and end speculation.  Let's get a few "junk" drives, have
> > a few people wipe them, using some paranoid/non paranoid techniques,
> >
> > then send the drives to some one else who will put on a few specific
> > files, a few word & excel docs, photos, a fake quickbooks files, some OS
> > files, what ever, wipe the drives using a series of techniques 1 with the
> > single pass, one with a multi over write, etc
> >
> > then send the drive to people like me, or other volunteers who will then
> > try to recover the data, I'd recommend using different software.  Then we'll
> > post the results.
> >
> > Something just does not feel right about a single over write.
> >
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