{"id":9252,"date":"2014-07-27T21:55:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T01:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9252"},"modified":"2014-07-27T21:55:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T01:55:07","slug":"why-you-only-have-to-wipe-a-disk-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/27\/why-you-only-have-to-wipe-a-disk-once\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Only Have to Wipe a Disk Once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/115573\/htg-explains-why-you-only-have-to-wipe-a-disk-once-to-erase-it\/\">Chris Hoffman<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.app.net\/uliwitness\/post\/35451754\">Uli Kusterer<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/115573\/htg-explains-why-you-only-have-to-wipe-a-disk-once-to-erase-it\/\"><p>To understand why the Gutmann method isn&rsquo;t necessary for all drives, it&rsquo;s important to note that the paper and method were designed in 1996, when older hard drive technology was in use. The 35-pass Gutmann method was designed to wipe data from any type of drive, no matter what type of drive it was &#8211; everything from current hard disk technology in 1996 to ancient hard disk technology.\n<\/p><p>As Gutmann himself explained in an epilogue written later, for a modern drive, one wipe (or maybe two, if you like &#8211; but certainly not 35) will do just fine[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had not heard that before. However, these days most of my drives are encrypted with FileVault 2, so there&rsquo;s probably little reason to wipe them, anyway.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hoffman (via Uli Kusterer): To understand why the Gutmann method isn&rsquo;t necessary for all drives, it&rsquo;s important to note that the paper and method were designed in 1996, when older hard drive technology was in use. The 35-pass Gutmann method was designed to wipe data from any type of drive, no matter what type [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[706,355,174],"class_list":["post-9252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-filevault","tag-privacy","tag-storage"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9253,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions\/9253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}