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Old 05-27-2021, 04:44 PM   #6783
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Originally Posted by SSM_DC5 View Post
What do you guys do to erase the hard drives before selling it so people can't go back and retrieve old data?
From what I've read if you have REALLY sensitive information on it, then it's not worth the money to sell the drive. Hackers will find a way if they really wanted to. Just keep it or physically destroy it, but unless you are Gal Gadot recording homemade porn or banking profiles on it I wouldn't worry too much. IMO just format it.

Personally when I upgraded to SSD, I just kept my old hard drive to hold backups (I have 3 iPhone backups in there that took a huge chunk of memory) and random old Chinese movies that you can't find on streaming sites anymore.
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