To understand why the Gutmann method isn't necessary for all drives, it's important to note that the paper and method were designed in 1996,
when older hard drive technology was in use.
Not exact matches
When one looks at the various Christian beliefs that were once firmly believed — Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, people living to be 700 or 900 years
old, the Red Sea splitting, water turning into wine, a talking snake, a man living in a whale's belly, people rising from the dead, Jesus
driving demons out of people and into pigs — but which are now acknowledged by most thinking people to be mere mythology, it is pretty
hard to give a lot of credibility to what's left.
While some newer smartphones do come with a nice sized
hard drive installed,
older smartphones have a way of running out of space once app happy users install one too many apps, or
when snap happy photographers fill up their phones with photos.
Do love how
hard drives can breath new life into
old computers and make them work better than
when they were new!
This morning, as I
drove to work in a light rain, I was bemused by the GT's severe shuddering and skittering at the rear
when I tried to accelerate into a
hard left - hand turn at the end of an exit ramp, but this might get
old pretty quickly.
3 steps to take
when disposing of your computer — Millions dump their
old computers without much concern about all the sensitive information still stored on the
hard drives, making them ripe for theft... (See Dispose your computer safely)
Note that,
when opening folders — especially folders on
old hard drives that had Windows installed on them — you might run into a warning message stating that you don't have access permission.
This is your primary consideration
when reusing an
old hard drive:
drive health.
My
old mechanical
hard drive has started grumbling loudly
when I boot my desktop and it made me realize how important it is to get this code on «the cloud» so it can exist eternally.