More money from Hard Drives - Data recovery boards

Trying to recover data from a HD buffer would equal trying to remove information from a stick of RAM. Both are emptied with each power down. This is why in a system crash everything you'd been writing is lost, due to it having been stored in RAM (either on the main boards RAM or the HDs RAM makes no difference), it's gone.

Correct...if there is a residual data left in memory on power down (like a ghost stuck in time), it is totally gone when renergized on power up in my opinion. So, maybe CIA or FBI could do something, but I doubt if a random drive from a random unknown sorce would have money thrown at it to see if they had a SSN that had good credit or a bank account that had money in it. But, the chance is there. Technally a platter with a hole on it still has 95% of its data on it. THey might not spin up, but you can extract the data from it by pulling a magnetic image of what is left. That would cost a lot, but the chance is there.



I hope I am not sounding smarty pants, but I am trying to indicate the statistics behind data destruction. Plus I had a kinda crappy day, so sorry.

Pulling the control board and deguassing, or shredding is the best bet for data destruction. It leaves the most useless or unpredictable intact remaining data. Also, software triple write stuff if you think it has a resale value.