"Drew" <drew@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Hi All:
>
> Does anyone know the difference between the DOD short wip and the DOD
> long wipe of a hard drive?
>
> Is one more preferred than the other to make data from a hard drive
> unrecoverable?
>
> Which one is the actual standard that most techs are doing to wipe a
> drive?
>
> Thanks for any thoughts!
> Drew
DOD is a waste of time, unless you're wiping the drive for a DOD machine,
a
mob boss, a spy, or a terrorist.
For the rest of us a single-pass all zeros does the job more than
adequately. To retrieve the data after that you need to pay big money and
send the drive to a data recovery company...and get real lucky, too. Fees
for that start in the thousands and it's not a job anyone can ever do at
home.
-John O
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