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Re: [PLUG] Mass media eraser
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Gasoline is $2.50 a gallon. How big is the company parking lot, Adam? ;)
Magnetic media like floppies are fragile, and unsafe for re-use. It's
simply not worth it to write over the data. Same goes with older hard
drives. No big company is going to re-use 20GB hard drives.
Decade-old drives can't be RMA'd, so a hammer and a box of nails is
the cheapest solution for those.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:02 PM, brent timothy
saner<brent.saner@gmail.com> wrote:
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*snip*
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> acetylene torch + lighter fluid = (erased floppies|claim on fire insurance)
>
> but no, if the stuff is still able to be read, might want to look into
> the DBAN disk [1] or the shred(1) utility. i believe it should be in
> coreutils so it should already be installed regardless of your distro.
>
> if they can't be read, you'd be better off physically destroying them.
> (well, you're ALWAYS better off physically destroying them...)
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> [1] http://www.dban.org/
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