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Ok, different question.
Is there any hdd data wiper you'd actually trust and is there a market for old hard drives?
I remember using Norton or something in the olden days to do "three pass military grade yada yada" data wipes of old drives before they went to recycling but nowadays I'm not sure.
On Ebay it looks like it might "make" £6 instead of costing £6 for the caddy.
Is there a better use? Just send it to recycling or is there a charity that could make use of it?
hippy-
Pretty sure the inbuilt windows one is decent enough. Can specify the number of full passes it does, overwriting every sector with a random number each time
E.g.
Format F: /P:4 -
Is there any hdd data wiper you'd actually trust and is there a market for old hard drives?
I assume Norton Utilities still was a wipe feature, but the three-pass Mil-spec thing related to magnetic domains which were not always fully covered by a rewrite to the same address due to mechanical inaccuracies. SSD doesn't have the same issue, so just writing junk files to the full capacity should eliminate any possibility of data recovery by an adversary.
There is a market for pre-owned discs, but 128GB must be below the point where anybody is interested, they're barely over £10 new even from reputable brands.
duncs
gbj_tester
You can, but is it worth it when a 128GB USB flash drive costs the same or less?