dmitryk

A moment of truth.... :-)

This is complete myth blown out of proportion. I work for a data recovery company and drive manufacture. Believe nobody, FBI, CIA, etc has ability to recover data from simple one pass erase. DoD Standard of 3 pass is a fake. You can do 10 - 100 or 1 pass it will not make it worse or better from point of erasing data on the drive.

What everybody worries about that Read Head and Write head inside of the drive are geometrically different.... where write head when erase data of the track will leave bands of previous data. It is supposedly possible to fly over the bands and read data.... Bull*t!!!

It's like many things in this world - Scare Has Big Eyes.....