the time taken to do multi passes of lets say a 1tb 7200 speed ide drive would be, yes a few hours, to be sure you would do more than this and also free one only does one pass and not to NSA levels Left in a test machine for a given amount of time, depending on size and speed of drive etc.

When i was at work, had a nurse came in who had put a floppy disk on a rad and left it, it was knackered by any way you would look at it, sent it away and she got all her stuff back, my point is, if someone wants it, they will get it, not even that hard tbh either.Ĭrush / drill then burn, and if they still want or can get the bits off the fragments they can have it, i've had a load of fun in the past with old drives that's have been acquired / second hand etc upgrades etcĪs long as i was sure nothing important was on them, i wouldn't sell them unless i really needed the money, no matter what wiped themĪnd yes b4 anyone says anything i know how both programs work as well, the programs overwrites the hd with random letters and numbers a given number of times, each byte / sector etc so in theory should leave a unrecoverable media.

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