How would you do that ...

[Mark]

This will work too and doesn't care about the type 😁

https://youtu.be/wb3Xa1h_RqM

On 5/4/2021 9:47 AM, Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users wrote:
>> Modern harddisks don't allow that anymore. Should I assume that
>> "low-level format" in this case means something like
>>
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX
>
> [puts on forensics professional hat]
>
> Good question!  The tl;dr of it is that the technique to wipe a hard
> drive will vary according to the kind of technology used in
> manufacturing the drive, and to a lesser extent the kind of forensics
> nerdery you're afraid of.
>
> This is the origin of the myth of the 30-odd-pass "Gutmann shred".  It
> was always a complete myth that you needed 30-odd passes to wipe a
> hard drive.  The 30+ passes were if you had no knowledge about the
> underlying technology of the drive and needed to account for antique
> FM-coded drives all the way up through modern SSDs.  If you were
> thinking of doing a 30+-pass shred, the best thing to do was smack
> yourself in the face for being so foolish and then go off and read the
> label on your hard drive.  :)
>
> For modern SSDs I generally recommend a single pass with random data:
>
> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/foo bs=1M
>
> (Don't forget the blocksize [bs] parameter; it can improve speed
> significantly.)
>
> This is enough to foil the vast majority of forensic analysis. Yes,
> yes, SSDs have remapping capabilities which means certain memory cells
> won't get hit even if you do this, and it's theoretically possible for
> a good forensics nerd to do all kinds of wild magic to pull off data
> you didn't even know was there... but that kind of very high-level
> forensics nerdery costs a lot of money, and few people are worth that
> kind of investment.
>
>
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