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

[Micheal Espinola Jr <michealespinola () gmail com>]

On 10/19/05, Raoul Armfield <armfield () amnh org> wrote:
> First of all IMHO NTFS is not ideal for storage devices that small
> because of the overhead involved.  Also NTFS only adds some security
> features such as file permissions. (Feel free to correct me if I am

NTFS isn't ideal with small drives because of sector allocation, but
the only reason you would/should use NTFS is for security.  In the
case of a small portable solid state storage device, encryption might
be a better solution than ACL-based security - especially since we are
considering portability to multiple systems.

> wrong).  As far as the number of times one should overwrite data is
> concerned, there are different schools of thought.  Some say 3 times
> some say 7 times, others may even say more than that.  However,
> regardless of what you use (PGP vs other wiping utility) I'd say that it
> is the same on flash media as it is on a HD.

I can't make that connection.  I'm not rocket scientists, but that's
an apples to oranges comparison.  One being magnetic media, and the
other being chip-based.  Wipes and trace residuals are not going to
behave in the same manner.  I think further investigation is required.

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