Timeline for How to safely cancel Disk Utility 'seven-pass secure erase'?
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| Feb 19 at 13:52 | comment | added | Marc Wilson | Put a drill bit through them, and you're done. | |
| Feb 19 at 10:19 | comment | added | benwiggy | If you want them erased and are discarding them, then Force-quit won't cause any harm. Please make sure you send them to be recycled, rather than landfill. | |
| Feb 19 at 7:51 | comment | added | Solar Mike | Introducing the old drives to a large sledgehammer several times usually renders the data irretrievable. | |
| Feb 19 at 4:58 | comment | added | stevec | @RohitGupta I'm doing some general upkeep on my disk drives (of which there are about 10 from with great variety in age and size etc). My plan is to move everything on to a new (modern/fast/large) SSD (complete), and now securely erase the 10 old hard disks. I haven't decided what I'll do with them yet. Given their age and tiny (if any) resale value, I'll discard them by throwing them into the bin. But I think it's wise to wipe them first. | |
| Feb 19 at 4:17 | comment | added | Rohit Gupta | If you were going to reuse the drive, why was there a need to secure erase it? | |
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| Feb 19 at 0:07 | history | asked | stevec | CC BY-SA 4.0 |