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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1096374" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>Depends on how sensitive the data was that had been stored on it and how you use your drive.</p><p></p><p>If you're selling it on eBay, do the 7-pass. If you're traipsing across the world with it, but will be using it routinely, a regular "write zeros". And if it's not going to leave your house, just do a plain old format.</p><p></p><p>I can't imagine why anyone would want to do a 35 pass zero. It's more likely that the drive would mechanically fail long before someone could possibly recover data from something overwritten in 7 passes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1096374, member: 24098"] Depends on how sensitive the data was that had been stored on it and how you use your drive. If you're selling it on eBay, do the 7-pass. If you're traipsing across the world with it, but will be using it routinely, a regular "write zeros". And if it's not going to leave your house, just do a plain old format. I can't imagine why anyone would want to do a 35 pass zero. It's more likely that the drive would mechanically fail long before someone could possibly recover data from something overwritten in 7 passes. [/QUOTE]
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