NYCguy Posted November 21, 2014 Share #1 Posted November 21, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quill Depot Posted November 21, 2014 Share #2 Posted November 21, 2014 Shred it... that's the only completely secure way to wipe a hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CenSin Posted November 28, 2014 Share #3 Posted November 28, 2014 For an SSD, issuing a secure wipe command to the drive does the trick instantly. For a regular hard drive, dd on Linux does an adequate job. If not sure, smash the drive to microscopic bits as hinted at above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted November 28, 2014 Share #4 Posted November 28, 2014 For an SSD, issuing a secure wipe command to the drive does the trick instantly. For a regular hard drive, dd on Linux does an adequate job. If not sure, smash the drive to microscopic bits as hinted at above. Smashing it to pieces may be the best thing to do. All of the software out there that I know of doesn't do the trick if someone really wanted to recovered information that was supposedly erased... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CenSin Posted November 28, 2014 Share #5 Posted November 28, 2014 Smashing it to pieces may be the best thing to do. All of the software out there that I know of doesn't do the trick if someone really wanted to recovered information that was supposedly erased... Wanna give it a try? I'm pretty sure some software simply do a shoddy job of it, but there are a few basic software tools that most people overlook that will do the job right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1995 Orion V CNG Posted November 28, 2014 Share #6 Posted November 28, 2014 Smashing it to pieces may be the best thing to do. All of the software out there that I know of doesn't do the trick if someone really wanted to recovered information that was supposedly erased... Why not pore acid on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted November 28, 2014 Share #7 Posted November 28, 2014 Wanna give it a try? I'm pretty sure some software simply do a shoddy job of it, but there are a few basic software tools that most people overlook that will do the job right. Well are we talking about conventional techniques that can stop even the most sophisticated recovery techniques? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1995 Orion V CNG Posted November 28, 2014 Share #8 Posted November 28, 2014 Well are we talking about conventional techniques that can stop even the most sophisticated recovery techniques? How about a retired PC unit? Can you pure acid on a PC? I have an old one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted November 28, 2014 Share #9 Posted November 28, 2014 How about a retired PC unit? Can you pure acid on a PC? I have an old one. Nah... The last PC I had I gave to a friend. I've been using laptops for a good 10+ years now... Almost time for a new one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1995 Orion V CNG Posted November 28, 2014 Share #10 Posted November 28, 2014 Nah... The last PC I had I gave to a friend. I've been using laptops for a good 10+ years now... Almost time for a new one... How old is your current one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted November 28, 2014 Share #11 Posted November 28, 2014 How old is your current one? Probably 3 - 4 years old... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1995 Orion V CNG Posted November 28, 2014 Share #12 Posted November 28, 2014 Probably 3 - 4 years old... lol, up until last year, I had a desktop dating from the early 2000s, (early 2002 to be exact). Still have the PC for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peacemak3r Posted November 30, 2014 Share #13 Posted November 30, 2014 New technology becomes obsolete after 6 months anyway. I magnetize my hard drives if not in use or dying already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CenSin Posted November 30, 2014 Share #14 Posted November 30, 2014 Well are we talking about conventional techniques that can stop even the most sophisticated recovery techniques? Anything that's not a simple delete from the file manager should work. For SSDs, the secure erase command is guaranteed to destroy data irrecoverably within seconds due to the nature of their inner workings. Conventional platter-based hard drives can also be easily wiped like SSDs if they are of the self-encrypting variety. For all other platter-based hard drives, overwriting the entire raw disk with null bytes will do the trick. Though many security experts recommend methods like overwriting with random data 35 times, even they will admit that a single pass of null bytes will afford sufficient protection. As far as I know, it's unheard of for any organization to recover data from even a single pass of overwriting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.