Re:Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy...
by YLYvYkHeB2NRNT on Sunday August 29, 2021 @04:55PM
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Are you willing to take that chance when discarding EOL disks?
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Re:Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy...
by swdev281634 on Sunday August 29, 2021 @06:57PM
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Depends on the discarding method.
I format them, and gift to some people around here who could make a good use of them (friends, neighbors). Usually, I replace disks because I need more storage, the old ones have quite a few years of life still left. These people know me, getting good hardware for free, and I'm reasonably confident they won't sell them to digital forensic experts on e-bay.