• Storage & Archiving

  Erase and Zero Hard Drives – is this good practice?

  Posted by James Bayliss-smith on February 15, 2012 at 4:06 pm

  Please see the last entry here

  https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/915052#1153154

  Andrew Richards replied 14 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jon Schilling

  February 15, 2012 at 4:47 pm

  James,

  I’ve never done it & don’t think it’s necessary. I’m sure others will chime in….

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  Andrew Richards

  February 16, 2012 at 3:39 pm

  Zeroning is strictly a security measure. It doesn’t improve the function of the drive or change how new data is re-written after a re-format. In the case of SSDs, zeroing is actually going to shorten the life of the drive since NAND storage is by its nature destructive when it writes blocks.

  Best,
  Andy

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