Am 20.07.2012 19:31, schrieb Le_Forgeron:
> Le 20/07/2012 18:15, Orchid Win7 v1 nous fit lire :
>> On 20/07/2012 12:20 AM, Darren New wrote:
>>> On 7/6/2012 10:36, clipka wrote:
>>>> Better yet, overwrite it with pseudorandom nonsense.
>>>
>>> On modern hard disks, this is useless. And by "modern" I mean pretty
>>> much anything that passed the 1GB boundary.
>>
>> Care to elaborate on that?
>>
>
> Old fact: reading a hard disk by direct access to the disk, with some
> electronic beam device... fine until the density and encoding on the
> disk went into modern era.
>
> Nowadays (and since most 1GB hard drive... quite old), its not possible
> anymore. Writing 0 or random number is the same: the old data is not
> recoverable.

Quiz: If you had highly sensitive data on your hard drive, and needed to 
erase it for sure - would you rather trust this alleged fact, or have 
the erasing software write random numbers just in case?

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