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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3118 days ago
Right? What are the people in this thread doing that they're worried someone would take the time to employ theoretical, if not entirely hypothetical, recovery methods against a zeroed disk?
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golem14 3118 days ago
Zeroing out a 4tb drive takes some time. Sometimes you might be in a hurry ;)
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AnIdiotOnTheNet 3117 days ago
That's fair, but that doesn't explain the people talking about 10 pass overwrite routines and other such nonsense.
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