Sunday 31 August 2008

Data destruction

After cleaning my home office I was left with some old hard drives to dispose of, this got me thinking about data destruction. In the past I cleared my drives with a couple of passes of random data using dd, but is this thorough enough?

This time round I have used a free bootable CD called CopyWipe (great utility, BootIt NG is also worth a mention). Each drive was given 5 passes, and then taken to with a hammer just to be sure. I've linked a picture to the "after" shot.

I can see data destruction being a larger problem as time goes on. I'd be interested to know the techniques others use for this problem.

1 comment:

  1. people at work today in the Data Management department were talking about "Hard Drive Shredders" that basically do to hard drives what document shredders do to paper. I've never seen one though.

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