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0 pointsAnIdiotOnTheNet8y ago0 comments

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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golem148y ago

Zeroing out a 4tb drive takes some time. Sometimes you might be in a hurry ;)

AnIdiotOnTheNetOP8y 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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0 pointsAnIdiotOnTheNet8y ago0 comments

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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golem148y ago

Zeroing out a 4tb drive takes some time. Sometimes you might be in a hurry ;)

AnIdiotOnTheNetOP8y 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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