News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy... by jcrawfordor on Sunday August 29, 2021 @05:25PM (#28350607)
No, platter drives usually don't have nonvolatile cache although it's hard to say for sure. Enterprise drives are more likely to. The bigger issue with spinning drives is that they move data around the platters in ways not disclosed by the manufacturers, including both optimizations (writing near heads) and error corrections like ending use of problematic parts of the platter. These all leave bits of data in "non-addressable" parts of the platter.
Re:Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy... by anfractuosity on Sunday August 29, 2021 @05:32PM (#28350650)
Ah, that's interesting. I wonder how hard it'd be to find these areas of the disk, I wonder if the location of them is stored in some kind of non volatile memory, so the disk can easily find them.