Selling my desktop computer. DBAN?

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LetThisEndNoah

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I am selling my powerhorse of a desktop computer.

I want to securely delete everything.
For the material to be beyond recovery.

Is "DOD Short - 7 rounds - 7 passes" ample?

Would you recommend me another method?

I tried running the Gutmann method, with 35 rounds and 35 passes.
It took a whopping 9 thousand hours (a year, more or less).
Really!?

I've made use of this method in the past, and it took no more than 14 days.
Why so much all of a sudden?
There is nothing wrong with my harddisk/hdd as far as i'm concerned...


You have my thanks!
 
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synthaside
In short Yes is most certainly is , in a former life as an apprentice data center engineer one of the Crap jobs i'd get was loading up our HUGE disk shelf with old decomming disks and running Dban in a DoD standard wipe , 7 rounds 7 passes is actually ample for destroying the data and keeping it usable .

( remember if you are selling on the disk to someone you know all those writes will hammer the disk life )

Beyond recovery is a very very loose term , beyond economical recovery is probably better because unless you dip the disk in acid or take the glass spindle out and turn it down on a lathe before burying it in the garden you can still spend a huge ammount of money to recover it forensically.
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In short Yes is most certainly is , in a former life as an apprentice data center engineer one of the Crap jobs i'd get was loading up our HUGE disk shelf with old decomming disks and running Dban in a DoD standard wipe , 7 rounds 7 passes is actually ample for destroying the data and keeping it usable .

( remember if you are selling on the disk to someone you know all those writes will hammer the disk life )

Beyond recovery is a very very loose term , beyond economical recovery is probably better because unless you dip the disk in acid or take the glass spindle out and turn it down on a lathe before burying it in the garden you can still spend a huge ammount of money to recover it forensically.
 
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