Are Multiple Passes Necessary?
Many data wipe software claim they can wipe a disk for multiple times, 35 passes at most, but for modern hard drives, 2TB is command, spend hours or days to wipe a disk is really necessary?
Actually, according to Peter Gutmann, a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Auckland, 1 pass of 1s, 0s, or 2 passes of 1s and 0s is enough to secure a hard drive.
Detect magnetic force change in a hard drive is a theory to recover data being overwritten, till now, no report shows someone successfully recovered file using this skill, the skill of computer specialist.
For any modern PRML/EPRML drive, a few passes of random scrubbing is the best you can do. As the paper says, "A good scrubbing with random data will do about as well as can be expected". This was true in 1996, and is still true now.
From "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory"
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