About deletion

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:57 am

I use secure shredder, a feature of Spybot, to delete some files. It wipes 5 times over, but do the files remain recoverable to the best HD recovery process? This is more of a curiosity, I've heard that the best way to ensure that data is gone is to thoroughly destroy the HD.

Thoughts?

Post by **SOAPboy** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:59 am

Destroy the HD.. only real way imo..

and by destroy, i mean melt into liquid metal..

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:01 am

SOAPboy wrote:Destroy the HD.. only real way imo..

and by destroy, i mean melt into liquid metal..

Yes I mean make liquid metal of the platters by "thoroughly destroy". But seriously though how many LLFs (zero fills) are required? The secure shredder feature defaults to erasing 5 times over (zero fills 5 times over).

Post by **SOAPboy** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:06 am

Massive Quasars wrote:
SOAPboy wrote:Destroy the HD.. only real way imo..

and by destroy, i mean melt into liquid metal..
Yes I mean make liquid metal of the platters by "thoroughly destroy". But seriously though how many LLFs (zero fills) are required? The secure shredder feature defaults to erasing 5 times over (zero fills 5 times over).

Well, if you google around, theres reviews on some of the crazy high end software/hardware that can pull data from wrecked drives..

Its actually scary O_O

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:13 am

SOAPboy wrote: Well, if you google around, theres reviews on some of the crazy high end software/hardware that can pull data from wrecked drives..

Its actually scary O_O

I used to volunteer at a place that zero filled HDs and sent used computers to schools. The manager would stress to me how zero filling the HD hardly makes the data irrecoverable, but it's the best we can do short of destroying the HD.

I still thought that maybe if you did enough LLFs that the data on the HD would essentially be irrecoverable. meh