Re: How to zero a failing disk drive before disposal?

On Thu, 2024-10-10 at 14:21 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Overwriting the data will not help. The reading head(s) could be
> adjusted and read the data on the side of the old track.

There is no side of an old track on a Shingled Magnetic Recording HDD,
the tracks are overlapping. Apart from this triviality, what do you use
to adjust the position of the heads, green glowing liquid or Tesla
Colis? What is possible is by no means affordable for everyone. You have
to be very special and have very specialised opponents for such forensic
methods to come into question.