Recent content by PhilipElder

David, You are welcome. We have a bin of hard drive platters since we purchased the most expensive drill bit we could get our hands on and still could only dimple the platters. We do dismantle them. For those clients that are conscious about their storage devices and data, and we have many...

It seems that when it comes to flash based devices things are as clear as mud. To make things even more cloudy have a look at the following study: Reliably Erasing Data From Flash-Based Solid State Drives http://www.usenix.org/events/fast11/tech/full_papers/Wei.pdf Even if we blank the drive...