for very old drives it may not
Would you be so kind as to point out the proof of that statement?
sorry but i didn't save that article on hard drive. So no proof if you
don't believe me i've actually read it.
The main point is that you have
- track
- intra-track gap
- finite precision of writing head positioning.
When you write on track second time, head isn't positioned exactly as
before so very thin stripe of previous recording remain.
With sophisticated enough tools you may recover it, requiring like 10
times smaller head than normal.
With modern drives size of magnetic domains are larger than this
imperfection. If drive record properly this "stripes" of leftover
recording are just too small to be stable.
Even if it would, no hardware exist to do this, except maybe scanning
electron microscope which would take years to scan whole surface of disk
IMHO.
Not sure if it can "see" surface magnetization as i don't precisely know
how such microscope works.
But i know it needs some time to scan even tiny thing.
Please provide an address or location where the documentation
supporting that statement can be found. By the way, "NOT READABLE" is
not equal to "UNRECOVERABLE".
yes i know the difference.
Finally i am not sure if "bulk erases" can actually erase drives, for sure
they can destroy disk electronics so disk appears cleared.
The field needed to clear modern magnetic media are just enormous. They
are enormous under normal operation of disk, but power is small as track
width is defined in nanometers.
If it would be my data to be erased i would just do
dd if=/dev/zero of=disk bs=..
or if really paranoid then after this
dd if=/dev/urandom of=disk bs=..
or if very paranoid then will just put that drives into fireplace,
which would heat them over curie point which would definitely
demagnetize whole media.
more sure than bulk eraser, and definitely secure, for free.
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