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Wrote 1 Terabyte of code under 24hrs

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I'm am privacy freak besides I wanted to test out the speed of my hard drive.

Well for a Maxtor 7200rpm 30GB I scored 12MB more or less on my second drive, I was running programs during the process.
I used Gutmann's 35 passes to insure my data can't be brought back too easily. 🙂
So for all those wanting to measure the speed of a disk drive use a eraser program. It wiped my drive clean from the inside to outside platter.


Task Report:
Processed = 1 times
Successful = 1 times
Terminated = 0 times
Possible failure = 0 times
Statistics (average):
Erased area = 30GBs (29839361 kB)
Data written = 1TB (1044377639 kB)
Write time = 23.6h (85119.9 s)
Write speed = 12MBs (12269 kB/s)

I downloaded the first eraser program listed at google and it's free.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/File_Management/Deletion/
 
I use a combination of Gutmann, DoD and pseudo-random erasing for everything. Just started doing it one day and it's not that much more of an effort.
 
Thanks for the info on the program, its nice to have for security reasons. I can use it at work or at home now, didn't know there was an open source eraser program, thanks!
 
Now I'm over at slashdot.org digging through stuff. And found this http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/01/02/21/1752256.shtml

For those beginners that think the recycle bin deletes every trace of info they might need some catching up.

But what I found neatto was the fact that wiping the drive with one swipe of any byte code example (0011001100) can easily be undone by the tech savy with the right tools and simply decoding by doing the opposite 11001100 so that's why one time isn't enough.

If your really into to it then you might want to use the byte code to write your telephone number or something that might indentify the drive or computer if lets say a coworker or someone stole it or did a swap by using this table.
http://www.glue.umd.edu/~nsw/enpm808c/number.htm

Example: 911 = 00001001 00000001 00000001
00001001 ( 9)
00000001 ( 1)
00000001 ( 1)

Learning something new everyday. 🙂
 


<< well, nothings simpler then getting out the trusty ol' sledge hammer and bashing the crap out of your hdd. >>



LOL
 


<< well, nothings simpler then getting out the trusty ol' sledge hammer and bashing the crap out of your hdd.

😀 >>


I've found a pistol grip, pump action, 12 guage shotgun with 3 1/2" magnum loads works well. 😀
 
lol I took the title literally.. I thought 'MAN! imagine typing 1 terabyte of code!' because typically people refer to C++ etc. as code, and files etc. as data.

I never expected recycle bin to erase the data physically from the drive, I thought it was common sense.

what do you have to hide? 🙂

besides I have alot of MP3s from the net (sshhhh I didn't say that) on CDR, not on Hard drive. btw a normal format (not /q) would do the same wouldn't it? normally I do /q but every so often I do a normal (LONG!) format to make sure that all bad sectors are catalogued and therefor not used..
 


<< I'm am privacy freak besides I wanted to test out the speed of my hard drive.

Well for a Maxtor 7200rpm 30GB I scored 12MB more or less on my second drive, I was running programs during the process.
I used Gutmann's 35 passes to insure my data can't be brought back too easily. 🙂
So for all those wanting to measure the speed of a disk drive use a eraser program. It wiped my drive clean from the inside to outside platter.


Task Report:
Processed = 1 times
Successful = 1 times
Terminated = 0 times
Possible failure = 0 times
Statistics (average):
Erased area = 30GBs (29839361 kB)
Data written = 1TB (1044377639 kB)
Write time = 23.6h (85119.9 s)
Write speed = 12MBs (12269 kB/s)

I downloaded the first eraser program listed at google and it's free.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/File_Management/Deletion/ >>



Interesting, but I ain't got nothing to hide 🙂
 
Another program that's interesting.
Blackmail or scare your family, friends, or co-workers with http://www.briggsoft.com/dsnoop.htm works on any FAT OS.

Directory Snoop is a low-level forensic utility that can recover erased files.

April is coming up, show that special person a thing or two 😀
 
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