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Selling a PC
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I think I'm in the minority with you, but with the proviso that writing a data pattern even once across an entire hard drive can take a very long time for large disks. Writing multiple patterns, for added security, takes multiple times as long!SouthUKMan wrote: »There is software available (both free and paid for) that claims to destroy your data and preserves the hard drive ready for resale. It's up to you whether or not your trust such software. Personally I do, but I know the majority of people don't.
Disk speed has not kept in step with disk capacity...0
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