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Old 05-27-2021, 07:19 PM   #6786
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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?
Is it an HDD or an SSD?

If it is an HDD, I'd use this:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...nloads/sdelete

and I'd run anywhere between 1 - 35 passes to wipe the drive, depending on how concerned I'd be about the data on the drive. (Actually, I won't. If I'm going to do anything more than 3 passes, I'm just gonna not bother selling.)

If it is an SSD, I haven't found a reliable enough program to wipe it yet, although Intel and Samsung drives are supposed to have 1st party tools that can do this for their own drives.
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