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Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives??
From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:29:40 -0400
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:17:57 PDT, you said:
It may be a labor pain and a half to recover an overwritten drive but the info on the disc may be worth taking to a recovery shop, especially a "no questions asked recovery shop" to pull data from the drive.
I've asked before, and I'll ask again - does *anybody* have any *actual* evidence that recovery from even a single overwrite is in fact possible on a modern drive (as opposed to the barely-doable work in Gutmann's paper from 1995 on MFM-encoded drives)? Fires, dropped in a lake, run over by a truck, 'format c:', are all recoverable. *NOBODY* has, to my knowledge, demonstrated an *actual* ability to recover a single-overwrite. Feel free to cite actual evidence, I've been looking for a decade and still coming up empty.
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- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Valdis Kletnieks (Sep 29)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Eric Jernigan (Sep 29)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Eric Jernigan (Sep 29)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Perry, Jeff (Sep 29)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? SCHALIP, MICHAEL (Sep 29)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Anthony Maszeroski (Sep 30)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Chris Green (Sep 29)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? SCHALIP, MICHAEL (Sep 29)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Perry, Jeff (Sep 30)