I heard that multi-pass overwrites on a daily basis can cause added wear and tear on the hard drive, which can potentially lead to an unstable system. Is this true?
I know for the fact that wiping a large unused space may take a long time, especially if you use 3-pass or more. However, I remember reading a thread on another forum (or maybe it was on this forum) which suggests you can get around it by filling your hard drives with large duplicate files until...
I have a bunch of large video files totaling 31.5 GB (they are in AVI format) that I wish to securely delete them. However, the erasing process would take too long, even with a 1-pass so I decided to come up with a new way to permanently erase them.
It works like this: you create a new file...
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