Wiping a church HD, and how do I request a new printer??

[MatthewEhle]

For those of you who have still not wiped their hard drives, let me give a little piece of advice that will save a lot of time.

You may have heard on the internet or elsewhere that you need to wipe a hard drive multiple times for it to be "really" erased. This is completely false. The theory that data could be recovered from a wiped hard drive originated decades ago. Modern hard drives use different technology and have much higher densities than hard drives used in that study. Even with in the study, the "data" that was recovered was barely distinguishable from complete entropy and would have been completely useless in a practical context. The idea that data could be recovered from a single HD wipe is completely theoretical, and there has never been a confirmed case of anyone being able to recover data off of a wiped hard drive.

So whatever utility you use, you can forget the "DoD standard" 7-pass wipe and go with a single 0 or 1 pass. It will be just as good and take a fraction of the time.