Hello, I’ve had my HDDs for 10+ years, want to get rid of them and switch them for SDD’s, or go completely with just my laptop.
I have a lot of data, government data, finance data, personal data, ID documents, passport, SIN, drivers license scans, over the past 10 years and would want it wiped.
It seems like DBAN is the most people data deletion software but I notice it says:
“Permanent Data Erasure YES** Removes data without any certifiable proof. No guarantee of data removal.”
No guarantee of data removal. Is it something to worry about, is there something better?
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So do you need a certificate to show to someone else to say the data’s gone, or do you just need the data gone? The service that the company that bought the dban.org website is trying to sell is the certificate, the original open source DBAN software is free.
Physical destruction is good option. I doubt 10yo HDDs are a huge loss.