Tuesday 5 June 2012

Why You Only Have to Wipe a Disk Once to Erase It

Youve probably heard that you need to overwrite a drive multiple times to make the data unrecoverable.

Many disk-wiping utilities offer multiple-pass wipes. This is an urban legend: you only need to wipe a drive once.

Source:
http://www.howtogeek.com/115573/htg-explains-why-you-only-have-to-wipe-a-disk-once-to-erase-it/

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