Comment on Do you encrypt your data drives?
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 7 months agoHave you tried secure-erasing a disk?
Once /dev/urandom is enough. Who cares if a state actor could theoretically recover your media library in an expensive lab.
Comment on Do you encrypt your data drives?
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 7 months agoHave you tried secure-erasing a disk?
Once /dev/urandom is enough. Who cares if a state actor could theoretically recover your media library in an expensive lab.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Even that takes a while.
h3ndrik@feddit.de 7 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 7 months ago
You take the disk out, drill once through it (use a metal bit).
Done.
24_at_the_withers@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Takes me about 2 seconds with a 5lb steel mallet.
h3ndrik@feddit.de 7 months ago
Sure. It’s just effort. I have to go fetch the power tools, fetch the drills, if I want to do it correctly also mount a vise or go fetch a piece of scrap wood and some clamps…
At work I’d additionally need 3 training courses to be allowed to operate the drill and visit the workshop. And it’ll still not be certified that the information is now gone.