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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Hardware that cleans hdd (alien.top)

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Does it exsit hdd hardware cleaners that uses gutmann method and other cleaning methods?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yes. These hardware devices are called "computers". They run software that use the Gutmann algorithm to erase the contents of a hdd.

Today hdds are more likely to be physically shredded in order to destroy the data on them. Faster and less labor intensive and less likely to be used wrong.