RE: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc.

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () stjoelive com>]

 Better than optical? Surely you've by now nuked a CD - in my experience,
between that and breaking one, the data is pretty much toast.

If you break a CD, do you think you could tape it together and get it to
spin up?!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: FocusHacks [mailto:focushacks () gmail com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:50 PM
> To: hfebelingjr () lycos com
> Cc: Security-Basics
> Subject: Re: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc.
>
> My PDA has only an SD slot so it couldn't have read the SM 
> card anyways.  The SD card still works after using it in the 
> reader.  The reader was a cheapo IOGear or something.  My new 
> one is a Sandisk 12-in-1.
>
> This is getting pretty far off topic though.  To bring it 
> back, I will say that all else being the same, solid state 
> storage is better than magnetic or optical media if you wish 
> to be able to erase sensitive data completely.
>
> On 10/20/05, Herman Frederick Ebeling, Jr.