Re: Fastest secure erasing of HD's?

In article <noemailhere-F9BBB5.17123730072008@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
The NewGuy <noemailhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When you zero out the data it can take quite a while. Several passes
takes hours for most hard drives. I was wondering if it helps the
security aspect to change the partitioning scheme in Disk Utility. One
could partition in Guid then Apple Partition Map then MBR in less than a
minute. But does it make any difference in the ability for others to
extract data off the hard drive?

Not a speck.

If not, is there another way of
quickly making a hard drive difficult to read without zeroing out data?

Orbital sander.

You may think I'm being flippant, but I'm not. The most reliable way -
and certainly if speed is a criterion - to ensure that a hard drive is
unreadable is to physically destroy the recording surface. Disassemble
the drive and hit the platters with some kind of grinder or polisher.

--
"Harry?" Ron's voice was a mere whisper. "Do you smell something ... burning?"
- Harry Potter and the Odor of the Phoenix
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