Hard drive active kill erase help

**AuburnEwaste** · 08-23-2014, 06:14 AM

If you are not doing a DOD 7 pass, the data can be recovered. One pass writing zeroes is only slightly better than formatting, and pretty much anything can be recovered.

**easyrecycle** · 08-23-2014, 06:34 AM

Originally Posted by AuburnEwaste

If you are not doing a DOD 7 pass, the data can be recovered. One pass writing zeroes is only slightly better than formatting, and pretty much anything can be recovered.

now that is true but doing a dod3 pass per the army standard would make it to much of a time killer, 95% (I would think) would move onto easier/faster drives to decode. Only drives we take that far are hospitals, schools, government but they are paying for that 7pass run on the drives and its not a small fee.....I have had only one company that did not fall into one of those groups request a dod 7 pass but its something we offer but its costly due to the time it takes.

**JustInTime** · 08-23-2014, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by AuburnEwaste

If you are not doing a DOD 7 pass, the data can be recovered. One pass writing zeroes is only slightly better than formatting, and pretty much anything can be recovered.

This is simply not true. Especially with today's high density hard drives.

Read this: The urban legend of multipass hard disk overwrite and DoD 5220-22-M | Grot

I'm really not trying to be contrary, but even someone like Ontrack, who is in the business of recovering data, would be hard pressed to recover data that was wiped with a single zero wipe pass.