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• Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s overkill, a couple of passes with dd and it’s irrecoverable.

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  • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    What’s dd?

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      A tool, primarily within Linux, that can overwrite disks. I’ve never seen it recommended for data deletion, but I guess it makes sense.

      It stands for “disk to disk” and is usually used for things like writing ISOs.

      However, shred is the usual approach.

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  • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A couple of passed with dd takes way longer than bolt cutters and it’s much less satisfying

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    • tatterdemalion@programming.dev ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think they meant you could wipe with dd and then they are recyclable.

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      • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They’re recyclable snipped.

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah lmao. Wipe one drive at a time with a USB connector. No thanks. I don’t have bulk drive operation equipment and then it ties up a computer doing the work.

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      • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Wait, you don’t just hang like 6 of them out of your desktop by their cables and wipe them while you sleep?

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  • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think bolt cutters are faster though

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    • bhamlin@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And significantly more power efficient

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    • voytrekk@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But more wasteful

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’re 500gb mechanical hard drives with financial data on them. Snip and done. No time wasted, not reusing them.

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• moonpiedumplings@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is not truly foolproof. Data can still be recovered from the spinning metal platter since it can theoretically be removed and put into a recovery device, even in a broken state.

  Im addition to that, hard drives/ssd’s have sometimes have small flash memory chips, from which data can sometimes be recovered.

  If you want it to actually be unrecoverable then you have to actually ensure all parts thay store data are truly deleted/wiped. Or just use encryption and throw away the key. Or just store them forever in a vault.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bud, if put that platter back together after I snipped it, you deserve every bit of data you got off it, 1000%

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    • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not that hard though. There are companies that offer data recovery as a service. If the value of the data on those drives exceeds the cost of those services then it becomes worth it to fish one of the drives out of the dumpster and take it there.

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      • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is a very specialized job, your acg joe is not going to do it. Also, in the many years I’ve been in IT, I’ve never even seen a video of a platter reconstructed and get data off it.

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  • ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Microwave it idk

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• blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think I’ve never disposed of one for this reason haha

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