ByKastroo
Hello.
I want to format my 2TB HDD because I want to sell it.
To prevent data from being recovered, it is recommended to choose a more complex formatting.
The program offers the following options:
Which one would you recommend or which option is sufficient?
(2 votes)
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With such a modern HDD hard drive, one-time overwriting is absolutely sufficient. Since the traces slightly overlap, there is no technical space for any residual magnetism.
It is much more important to verify that the tool has actually destroyed all sectors (or if you want to make it just sample the last few sectors).
I am still concerned that small reserve areas (reallocated sectors) could have old content, which can also be done with the 35. Overwrite would not overwrite.
All that is below the selected option of BSI, I would classify as “paranoid”.
Okay, thanks. Even the BSI option will last at least 10 hours according to the program. It’s hard.
After the post has been relocated, the thing does not seem to be quite clear… I’ll give you the right thing, so even the more eager expert will rub on it. We had only in the company the discussion of how large the splitters can be at edge length of an HDD when they come out of the shredder to satisfy a certain standard.
With you it is so, you want to safely delete your HDD to sell it afterwards.
I’ll tell you very honestly about the technical side:
If you are not a sought-after state enemy or top spy, or if you do not have any plans for a working time machine on the HDD, that is technically sufficient.
No one with normal technical means can then restore any sector. Sufficient for private things.
Now you’ve been doing the right thing and obviously got you a DBAN clone and want to delete your HDD. The standards that you see here are almost all military safety standards where x-fold safety is predicted that even with future technology, no one can restore you a byte of the original data even in 50 years.
The origin of this consideration was when HDDs of a still quite young generation with huge plates and huge track distance after the erasure had yet to prove a weak residual magnetism with which – appropriate intelligence technique was assumed, then bit for bit could be closed to the original data.
Nowadays, however, tracks are already written overlapping with such a small track distance that this is hardly possible today.
On the contrary, be careful not to ruin your HDD. We already had the same debate in the company when it was decided to safely erase out-ranked technology and output it to employees instead of shreddering when they then suddenly had newly assigned sectors in the SMART values after 7 runs. This is because things are getting hot, so make sure that the temperature does not rise above 50°C, because HDDs do not like it.
If I’m going to be safe, I’ll take the Gutmann-Method choose, although of course this takes longer.
Uff there was something about 40 hours ago
I mean, there were mostly games on it, and as far as I can remember school documents from my school age.
I know ^^^, that’s why I wrote: If number is important 🙂
What are you going to do?
That’s just for paranoids,
Other
Thank you very much. Then I am “only” at about 10-12 hours
After only games (completely inaccessible) and school stuff were on it, I would say: choose 2 or 3 passages.
Yeah, I don’t need the record anymore. Has long been replaced by ne SSD.
There were only games and a few school documents on it….
Honestly, if you’re doing it for the Mammon, you’re definitely doing something wrong for me.
And whether it’s worth it, honestly: Can’t smell what you have on it. If you are Prof. Zweistein with the quadrature of the circle, then it is worth choosing the Gutmann method. But if you’re just Otto from the neighborhood, who has unobtrusive stuff on it, the standard formatting is enough.
Does the effort pay? I won’t get more than 20€ anyway…
Well, I’d do 7 passages.
ABER, for a used 2 TB hard drive you might get 10 – 15 €.
It’s not worth the effort.
That’s the next one. I don’t know if it’s worth it, that will be 11-12 hours.
I mean, I don’t have to do anything except run the Pc.
Doesn’t pay for €10-15. Really, I would rather use the hard drive myself
Krass. What do you need so much storage for?
Okay, everybody like he needs.
I have 20 times, and it still seems to me too little.
I didn’t touch the plate for at least 2 years. So memory still seems to have enough. The Pc has a total of 2.250 GB of memory, which is easy enough for me.
there is never too much storage. Trust me, you will regret it right
Like that? You can never have too much memory.
Well, I don’t need her. I’ve replaced it with a 2TB SATA SSD 2 years ago.
Copy a CD with the Wendler repeated to the record until it is full. There are also Russian ultracrackers struggling to investigate this thing.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
For your purposes, the “Löschprogramm: Gut” option is completely sufficient. This program overwrites the data several times, making recovery almost impossible.
Good luck on sale!