On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Lee Winter<lee.j.i.winter@gmail.com>wrote:
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Aaron Toponce<aaron.toponce@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 08:59:14AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
If you want to be safe, you need to overwrite the data several times,
Have anything to back that up? If you're using drives that used the old
MFM
or RLL encoding schemes, and had massive space for bits per linear inch,
then sure, but on today's drives, with perpindicular encoding, and the
extremely dense bit capacity, going more than once is silly.
I perform this service for commercial recyclers.
Or in other words, it must be true because the service provided
depends on this being true.
It remains an urban legend as long as there is no proof offered otherwise.
I'm not saying it is true or not, but just that there has never been
a demonstration made public of getting data off drives after
a complete zeroing. So it remains an unknown, and
never demonstrated.