I do wanna test shreding a HDD 999x and see if that company can recover stuff.<br>Hmm.. anyone wanna fork over 1k?<br><br>LOL<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="gmail_quote">On 9/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">john-thomas richards
</b> <<a href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org">jtr@jrichards.org</a>> wrote:</DEFANGED_span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 03:35:17PM +0000, Jorge La wrote:
<br>> ^yeah, "shred"<br>><br>> so woun't that be fool proof against recovery? because the whole hdd would<br>> be filled w/ 0s<br>[snip]<br><br>My understanding of this issue is that shred writes the zeroes many,
<br>many times. I recall reading an article that explained that simply<br>writing over data once is not sufficient because not all the bits of<br>magnetic material get rearranged. It is like writing a word on a<br>sheet of paper and then erasing it lightly and writing another word
<br>over it. There is often enough of the original word to see what it<br>was. In the case of a hard drive, writing the same data over and over<br>will eventually rearrange all the bits and thus truly wipe the old data<br>
clean.<br>--<br>john-thomas<br>------<br>Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car<br>could go straight upwards.<br>Fred Hoyle, Astronomer, mathematician, writer (1915- )<br>_______________________________________________
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