First thing I (and a lot of people) do with a drive is encrypt the volume and write zeros to the entire thing. Otherwise, you're leaking information about how m

First thing I (and a lot of people) do with a drive is encrypt the volume and write zeros to the entire thing. Otherwise, you're leaking information about how much is on them after you encrypt them for your own needs. Once they've been "erased" they're ready to use (or give away to friends.) edit: of course who knows what's on the hardware, but I haven't heard of the exploit that would doom me.