Scheduled Maintenance: We are aware of an issue with Google, AOL, and Yahoo services as email providers which are blocking new registrations. We are trying to fix the issue and we have several internal and external support tickets in process to resolve the issue. Please see: viewtopic.php?t=158230

 

 

 

Question on securely erasing old hd before dumping

If none of the specific sub-forums seem right for your thread, ask here.
Post Reply
Message
Author
User avatar
dasein
Posts: 7680
Joined: 2011-03-04 01:06
Location: Terra Incantationum

Re: Question on securely erasing old hd before dumping

#21 Post by dasein »

Oh for the love of J "Bob" Dobbs...
US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wrote:For ATA disk drives manufactured after 2001 (over 15 GB) clearing by overwriting the media once is adequate to protect the media from both keyboard and laboratory attack.
Available: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistp ... errata.pdf
Center for Magnetic Recording Research, U. of California, San Diego wrote:...the multiple overwrite approach is not very much more effective than a single overwrite
Available: http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/docu ... 08_000.doc


To paraphrase Daniel Moynihan, folks are certainly entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.

Image
Top
Post Reply

Return to “General Questions”