-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/24/10 20:34 , Paul Graydon wrote: > On 08/24/2010 02:25 PM, Doug Hughes wrote: >> >> You're right. I confused secure erasing (which no longer requires many >> passes, even though it remains part of the common cargo-cult lore), with > > That one whizzed past my head with an audible whooshing sound. Since > when does secure erasing no longer require multiple passes?
I think that's actually slightly backwards: with current drive densities, multiple passes don't change significantly more magnetic domains than single passes (if they did then they would wipe out neighboring bits). - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [email protected] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [email protected] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkx1RBQACgkQIn7hlCsL25VbsQCeL7wZjj17aY9A4eVvsvjxhmAt IDEAoNZjbZm1lEPeBnOPicLU180CxnZ7 =egNP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
