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Does "secure wipe" mean ATA SE, i.e. hdparm --security-erase, or --security-erase-enhanced?
by kikoreis 10y ago
Does "secure wipe" mean ATA SE, i.e. hdparm --security-erase, or --security-erase-enhanced?
- ams6110 10y agoFor that volume I'd think a degausser would be used.
- teraflop 10y agoAFAIK, if you physically destroy the contents of a drive with a strong magnetic field, you also destroy the servo tracks, rendering the drive useless. Modern hard drives can't "low-level format" themselves; they're not mechanically precise enough.
- deelowe 10y agoDegaussers render the drive nonfunctional.