[Gllug] Thoughts on secondhand server guide price

[Andy Millar]

> That's a very simplified model of how magnetic media works, which probably
> hasn't been valid for over a decade. Indeed, much of the common wisdom
> regarding erasing hard disks - notably the 35-pass meme - seems to be based
> on obsolete pre-IDE disk technology. Does anybody here still store critical
> data on RLL-formatted Winchester drives?

Whilst not pertaining to be an expert on data destruction, I personally
regard /dev/zero, /dev/urandom, /dev/zero as a relatively sufficient way
of destroying the data on my disks.

That said, they're encrypted in the first place anyway :-)

Andy
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