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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 6:18 am Post subject: Data Destruction for Hard drives.. drilling a hole is not safe enough especially on SSD
Multiple holes, yes.. but if you do it just like a platter/spindle drive with one hole through the platters... the error correcting on the drive can still reproduce data....
Even in mechanical drives one or two holes is not enough..
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You have not prevented someone from putting the platter under a magnetic force microscope and reading most of the data off that way
Posting this for three reasons
1. PSA - Be safer
2. *I acquired an SSD with a hole in it. I placed it into my external drive adapter and HUH.. Readable data..
For Mechanical drives
3. Stop destroying perfectly good reusable hard drives
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+1. for spinning drives, overwriting all sectors renders the data impossible to recover even for determined attackers, AND avoids wasting perfectly fine hard drives. – JanErikGunnar Aug 16 '17 at 10:43
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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 7:00 am Post subject: Re: Data Destruction for Hard drives.. drilling a hole is not safe enough especially on SSD
Drilling a hole always seemed like such a cumbersome effort for such minimal damage. You'd need a drill and a power source where a plain hammer and 30 seconds of repressed memories would give you a complete shatter. _________________ "All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."
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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 11:33 am Post subject:
HCl: Hydrochloric acid
HNO3: Nitric acid
H2SO4: Sulfuric acid
HBr: Hydrobromic acid
HI: Hydroiodic acid (also known as hydriodic acid)
HClO4: Perchloric acid
HClO3: Chloric acid
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You can boot from a live Linux disc or USB stick and use dd or shred from the command line or install nwipe from the repository to do the job from a gui. Gparted may also have some utility and it is usually already installed on most live distros.
You can boot from a live Linux disc or USB stick and use dd or shred from the command line or install nwipe from the repository to do the job from a gui. Gparted may also have some utility and it is usually already installed on most live distros.
this - and than reuse your disks until they actually fail. Just don't forget backups..
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