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by yellowapple
4342 days ago
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> data extraction after formatting That's not what DBAN is. In order to recover data from an overwritten drive, you'd need to remove the platters and run them through specialized laboratory equipment - often running upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars or more - in the hopes of finding residual evidence of the previous data. This isn't even close to surefire with modern hard drives. You're correct about SSDs, and are correct that physical destruction is the only absolute guarantee. However, it's disingenuous to imply that formatting and overwriting are equivalent (that's far from accurate), and for most consumers and even small businesses, they're dealing with a level of security that - per NIST standards - is sufficiently handled with overwriting alone. |
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