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Ferkrissake! Secure Erase is built into the drive controller!

Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 192.168.1.253] on May 31, 2008 06:49 PM
Unfortunately, few people know this and articles like this one keeps spreading misinformation.

See here: http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml

All you need to do to securely erase a disk is activate the erase routine that is built into all modern disk drives.

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