Allen Chang schrieb: > > There's a problem with that too. Advanced recovery services probably can > still retrieve some data from a HDD with 2 holes in it.
Jepp... Also if the HDD is partly burned, professionals can recover the data on the not-burned areas... > What's probably > desired for total data wiping is a combination of overwriting, magnetic > erasure(degausser) and then physical destruction (incinerator sounds > like the best one so far). Delete the data on the disk as secure as possible (I've no idea which of the programms mentioned so far is the best) take a *really* strong electro-magnet and make the disk *really hot*. (For example: Take a gasoline fire... Or will the disk with esbit. !DANGEROUS! IT COULD EXPLODE!!!!!) > > But that's probably going overboard for 98% of the world. Surly going overboard for most cases. > > @llen regards Sebastian > > On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Mark Medici wrote: > > > I don't know how many disks Dan needs to erase. But a new 20GB hard > > disk costs less than $100. Two 198g 30-06 rifle cartridges cost about > > $2.00. Take the old disk out to the rifle range and punch two holes > > through it. Install the new disk and be done. Heck, you could probably > > charge office staff for the opportunity shoot-up the disks, and recover > > $10 to $25 bucks per disk!
