OMG CEX what have you not done
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Waiting for OP to find Trident nuclear launch codes on hard drive.
unless it is underage or animal abuse, just zero it and get on with life
i fear for humanity!!
Apparently researchers have found that, depending on manufacturer, this doesn't always work properly.
What's the performance impact of something like Bitlocker whole-disk encryption? I've never had data I'm that fussed about securing, but if there's negligible perf impact then there's no reason not to do it.
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Compensation for what..?
What have they done to you, in buying someones hard drive that YOU should be compensated for?
Odd.
I'm not going to go into personal details but trust me you don't need to have done anything for police to take all electronic devices.
I haven't noticed any performance hit on an SSD-equipped machine. Apple now default to enabling it.
What?
If you passed on your drives to anyone without securely wiping them first then you deserve to have your bank account emptied.
Now just wipe the drive and move onto your next non drama that you can immediately take to the internet over.
It's one of them things I believe that they state you need to remove all data from devices before giving it to them. I don't think that they need to do any more themselves (honestly).
I wouldn't trust them to securely erase data of drives, even doing a basic 1 or 3 pass wipe will take them far too long (enough to make it uneconomical, anyway).
I've got friends who do full on 35 pass wipes on drives to get rid of all data before then destroying (just as a precaution for anything, really)
I wouldn't trust them to securely erase data of drives, even doing a basic 1 or 3 pass wipe will take them far too long (enough to make it uneconomical, anyway).
I've got friends who do full on 35 pass wipes on drives to get rid of all data before then destroying (just as a precaution for anything, really)
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I recently bought 5x 500gb drives off gumtree for £35 for testing out nas and random backups. thought I was going to meet up for a fellow pc nerd but the guy had no teeth and was waiting for someone else to buy a bulk of power drills.
They had not been wiped, the ad said they had. needles to say I couldn't be bothered looking and wiped them all and put them through a test, they work good. wouldn't trust them with my own important data though.
They had not been wiped, the ad said they had. needles to say I couldn't be bothered looking and wiped them all and put them through a test, they work good. wouldn't trust them with my own important data though.
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The millenial generation and compensation
What exactly are you asking for compensation for? How have you lost out by having someone else's data... you bought a second hand drive, just format it.
If there is something in their T&Cs that mean they're supposed to format drives then it is that other person who passed on the drive to them that has been wronged, not you.
I'm just shocked people sell hard drives in the first place!
Mine get formatted, overwritten a few times and then physically abused with various hand tools much to my enjoyment.
The amount of torture they take I can't understand how some HDDs fail under normal use!
Mine get formatted, overwritten a few times and then physically abused with various hand tools much to my enjoyment.
The amount of torture they take I can't understand how some HDDs fail under normal use!
I think the implication is that he has sold drives through CeX before with data on them and assumed they would thoroughly wipe them before selling them on and now wants compensation incase someone has got hold of his data and has or might misuse it.
Given the rest of his post though...
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