PATA hard disks, anyone?

[TeoZ]

Only somebody working for the NSA would bother trying to do that. Going from 
theory to practice can be VERY expensive and time consuming.

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From: Ethan via cctalk
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 3:26 PM
To: Chuck Guzis ; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: R: PATA hard disks, anyone?

> 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?

AFAIK there has been a bounty out to recover data with a single wipe that
hasn't been collected. I thought it was all theory and never done in
practice?


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