Hide Your Secrets FOREVER! - Erasing Data Securely

How can you erase data to the point where it's unrecoverable?

[mroctavio]

Techquickie with no intro.
I like this trend.
Also, less than 5 minutes

[oAvalono]

Dennis is quality control, inserts self as meme

[AliciaCLR]

Even if I did I wouldn't get caught


Denis Steal Cutlery

[NordekPL]

-Do you have extra 5 minutes per day?
-No. Well, I had, but I watched Techquickie

[TheDankTiel]

Pffft me???
**Stops everything and intensely focuses on vid**

[jimez]

I like Riley doing these. He did a good job.

[HalfOgre]

Riley is my only secret and I NEVER want him to go away.

[JPLToyExperience]

I can finally erase my Detective Pikachu X Sonic the Hedgehog fan fiction

[parillo]

I love Seeing riley all the time now! ALL HAIL RILEYTECHTIPS!

[Losty]

THIS IS THE BEST SPEAKER OF THIS CHANNEL.

[EdwinStreet]

I once read on reddit that the best way to securely wipe a hard drive is to unscrew it, take out the platters and bend them. So I gave it a go and just as I started bending the platter it exploded into thousands of tiny shards all over my keyboard, desk, the floor, my lap, and the monitor. It also cut up my thumb and some fingers so much that they bled and left a trail of blood all the way through the house to the bathroom where I had to bandaid them up. Then it took me an hour to vacuum up all the shards but there are probably still some in my keyboard. I was lucky none got in my eyes.

[kieranpatton]

Thanks I can now successfully delete my 16 terabyte homework folder my parents keep asking about.

[SpecialEDy]

Felt pretty confident when my mom and I took a drill to the 4 harddrives out of my deceased stepfather's computer. She was just gonna leave it on the curb as is.

[Chrischn]

Riley was such a good addition to the team! I really like his style (I don't mean his clothes)!

[c-LAW]

the best way to wipe your drive is to ENCRYPT your drive. WHen you're ready to erase, assign a 128bit encryption key, then throw away the key. This makes "wiping" the drive instantaneously.

[shadytv]

don't ever sell used hard drives - Drives are cheap, Data is expensive. It's not worth it in the long run

[stefanmisch]

The SSD part was a bit too superficial, IMHO.

[XDSDDLord]

That was really well done, I think I can say it's actually one of my favorite videos on this channel.

[whywouldieveruseacha]

I love LTT cast, but I think that Riley is far and away the most well spoken out of the cast aside from Linus. I'd love to see him do any video Linus doesn't (aside from the ones Brandon and Terran, love when those guys talk about their niches).

[Chriswsm]

Another nifty trick for clearing deleted data from a hard drive is to use your copy of spinrite if you have one. Delete the data then run spinrite on level 4.
This will invert every sector as it passes and then change them back again to what they originally were it does this to check that the drive is functioning properly but in the process it also rewrites the content of the drive twice over the existing data without damaging the existing data.
not long ago I gave a spare 3 terabyte drive to a friend who needed it for a CCTV system. To erase my data I formatted the drive and then around spinright on it. The driver was healthy and empty.