For what it is worth, you may find that if you explain the situation to the support rep they will waive the return and let you destroy the dead drive. When I say the drive is broken, the drive won’t be recognized by my OS (meaning I can’t use standard tools to wipe it) and I keep hearing clicking noises. NSA-listed degausser with IRONCLAD Erasure and Destruction Verification System generates a proof-of-destruction certificate with JPG images.
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You’ll find Oe ratings of about 1800 or higher for current tapes, while hard drives can easily reach 5,000 Oe. These energy level ratings tell you how strong of a degausser you’ll need to destroy the data that’s being stored on the device. Melting may sometimes be employed as the final phase of the “how to dispose of hard drives” process. There’s no special equipment built for melting hard drives. Instead, the hard drives are taken to a metal recycling center and dumped into a vat of molten steel. Obviously, this guarantees 100 percent data destruction as there’s no chance of recovery.
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As long a you’ve chosen a strong passphrase, and as long as you’re certain that the unencrypted data was never temporarily outside of your encrypted container then yes, encryption could be a viable solution. Yes, there are various utilities out there that will do varying degrees of data “wiping” to help decrease the chances that the data can be recovered. And if an unconditional Format isn’t enough for you, then they might be worth checking out.
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Attempting to delete/clean all areas of a hard drive and cleanse all repositories like the registry could take days and like you said; you just couldn’t be sure you got everything. Having previously ‘looked around’ regards disk cleansing, I’d like to share my comments since more knowledge never hurts.
I assume that the business of multipass wiping etc doesn’t apply to SSDs. When donating an old computer, I always remove the hard drive and then “erase” it with a ball peen hammer. It takes about 30 seconds, has no cost, and I know that all the data is unrecoverable.
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THE GEEK SQUAD assures me they can have all my photos and videos rescued by a level three retrieval. It depends on how paranoid you are about the old data. Putting the drive into a machine and simply performing an unconditional format would be enough for most. Otherwise, anything that you can do to destroy the disk physically would be the near-ultimate. Formatting or erasing a hard drive by definition erases everything.
Securis franchise owners George Parks and Daniel Dodd, who own and operate the data destruction and electroni… Securis gets a lot of questions about how to destroy a solid-state drive, and whether degaussing works to do s…