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Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to cerdan
Re: HDD: 35 pass Guttman wipe on dban im sure a scanning electron microscope could pickup the magnetic particles but after multiple passes of DoD level wipe im pretty sure the bits would be so scrambled that even with the microscope they wouldnt know what order to put them back to togather in.
of course a Magnesium Burn(or something in a similar temp range) is the only true way if you really really really need to get rid of a drive. even the best of the best cant recover data from a pile of slag.
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| From what I've read about overwriting a drive, it's just that, overwriting with new random data. But the data is still available underneath and recoverable. Though expensive and difficult to acquire it. We're talking three letter agencies here, this isn't something your average joe can do. But still the data is there and recoverable, no matter how many overwrites one does. |
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 Doctor OldsI Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me.Premium,VIP
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kudos:18 | said by steve45 :
From what I've read about overwriting a drive, it's just that, overwriting with new random data. But the data is still available underneath and recoverable. Though expensive and difficult to acquire it. We're talking three letter agencies here, this isn't something your average joe can do. But still the data is there and recoverable, no matter how many overwrites one does.
Not after a single pass of the Thermite algorithm. 
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Yes, but this thread isn't about destroying a drive. |
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kudos:18 | said by steve45 :
@ Doctor Olds
Yes, but this thread isn't about destroying a drive.
True, but I was wondering who would catch it first since I added algorithm to the end of the sentence.
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