Comment on What is the best way to safely and completely erase all data from old laptops?
Deestan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you just do the simple one-pass zero-ing out, suggested a few times here, the data is only recoverable in theory. There are labs that do it, but they charge thousands of USD for a drive and giving limited results.
Unless you are being actively targeted by deep pockets, that’s plenty good enough.
Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
And if you do a couple passes (might take a bit but who cares if youre throwing the whole thing out) then in theory even the nsa can’t get in it