Comment on Do you encrypt your data drives?
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Have you tried secure-erasing a disk?
Absolutely yes, I do enctypt my drives so I don’t have to ever do that again. This isn’t as critical for SSDs but it’s still a good idea. Even if you keep the key stored on the same system, securely deleting a tiny file is way easier than a whole disk.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 6 months ago
Once /dev/urandom is enough. Who cares if a state actor could theoretically recover your media library in an expensive lab.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Even that takes a while.
h3ndrik@feddit.de 6 months ago
And it has other benefits. For example a dying disk. You can just throw that out. I once tried to wipe such a disk and it’s a chore. It makes weird clicking noises and slows down to the point where it’d take years to overwrite it. Occasionally the SATA controller resets etc. And it won’t succeed at overwriting stuff. Sure I could go to the garage, get the power tools, put the hdd into a vise and delete everything with a combination of hammer and drill… But it’s much more convenient to have it encrypted and not care.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You take the disk out, drill once through it (use a metal bit).
Done.