[Gllug] Data recovery Was: Re: Thoughts on secondhand server guide price

[Benjamin Donnachie]

2009/6/17 sean <S.Tohill at westminster.ac.uk>

> it is well worth a read if you wish to know more about the area and also
> to decide if your data is at risk when you sell your wiped disks.
>

Useful links regarding the on-board erase command - which, unlike DBAN etc,
also kills HPA and DCO areas:

  http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=148
  http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/HDDEraseReadMe.txt
  http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml
  http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/DataSanitizationTutorial.pdf

Enough to get started... :)

Ben
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