30 May
2009
30 May
'09
11:53 a.m.
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 18:16:00 +0930, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 13:31 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
It makes no real difference - use the drives own secure erase feature if you want to be sure, otherwise you've got no guarantee that everything will be cleared - only the drive knows enough to do the job.
But do you know what the drive does when you use that function? ;-\
Reading the drive back in should give you a good idea. If that isn't enough of a check for you then you should just be destroying the drive.