Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:21:41 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to zero a failing disk drive before disposal? Message-ID: <ZwfG1Q0Qtb6IkHCd@pureos> In-Reply-To: <5117.1728561469@segfault.tristatelogic.com> References: <5117.1728561469@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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El día jueves, octubre 10, 2024 a las 04:57:49 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette escribió: > I have a pretty ancient 4TB spinning rust drive (WD4001FAEX) that is unambiguously at > death's door: > > ... I used once an axe to destroy the (metal) case and slices and then I throw it into the wastebin of my house which is emtied once a week into a big truck and perhaps it content is put on fire. > Any suggestions? If worse comes to worse I guess I will end up writing my own tiny > little C program to just write 4KB blocks to a designated output file while ignoring > all output errors, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel if somebody else already > created something I can use in this context. Overwriting the data will not help. The reading head(s) could be adjusted and read the data on the side of the old track. matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub Annalena Baerbock: "We are fighting a war against Russia ..." (25.1.2023) I, Matthias, I am not at war with Russia. Я не воюю с Россией. Ich bin nicht im Krieg mit Russland.
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