R: PATA hard disks, anyone?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 03/26/2018 11:23 AM, Mazzini Alessandro wrote:
> Well, but with dban and/or other certified software the drives are as well as new. The only issue would be the time/cost to sanitize them in house.

Certainly, but it's fruitless to use logic in cases such as these.
Chances are that someone once read the paper from the 1990s that said it
was possible to recover overwritten data from a drive using, IIRC, an
STM--at a rate of what was it? 1 kbit per hour?

--Chuck