sanitizing disc

[Liam Proven]

On 3 February 2014 20:50, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> Yes - as I said, you would only destroy your drive if you were very
> concerned about keeping the data from other eyes.

This reflects upon my key point, which you seem to be missing.

People don't know there are easy free tools for data wiping, and so
they are destroying HDs /instead/. This is the method of *preference*
for the technically-naïve. It is rendering hundreds of thousands of
working computers useless.

Even Linux techies are recommending stuff difficult, dangerous like
SATA controller commands /in this thread/ rather than simple things
like the `shred` command.



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