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Information Data Destruction Software

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Hi Dougie,

Don`t deal with anything top secret etc so DBAN when the drive will be going back into use and a hammer when the drive is going in the trash :)

Hard drive forensic experts will most likely always be able to recover some form of data off a storage device that has been wiped using a program that is readily available to the general public so the only sure way is physical destruction of the device concerned as far as I know.
 
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#4
You are welcome Dougie :)

DBAN really does wipe a drive and so much so that it will often cause a failing HDD to fall over, incidentally, one of the things that I have often seen DBAN used for is trying to clean up reallocated sectors etc on a HDD and this is when a HDD is most likely to fail, this can save people some grief in the long run because as you most likely know some folk don`t heed the warning signs of a failing HDD and store irreplaceable data to them and with no back up in place either :(
 
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Problem is, they think it will never happen to them, and then it does.
Surely, one's irreplaceable data is worth the cost of a cheap spinner HDD.
The drives are so cheap now.
I have seen some backup up their data to the same drive.
That really is clever.:rolleyes:
 
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Some of my friends are so cheap, when spending money on their computers.
They think nothing of spending $150-200 on a meal out,yet baulk at spending an extra few bucks on a second drive.
I think they have their priorities all wrong, personally.
I repair their computers at a modest cost, anyway.
 
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