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On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 21:56:16 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> Again, my *guess* is that with a *very* modern drive where the |
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> manufacturers simply cannot squeeze any more data onto the platter, |
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> that even the NSA would not be able to recover any data. But it may |
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> be that is just what they /want/ us to think... |
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There is always room for more data on the platter, simply because the |
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manufacturers cannot push things right to the limit and still guarantee |
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that the drives will still run reliably three years later. Of course, as |
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manufacturing techniques become more sophisticated, tolerances become |
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smaller, so it will be more difficult, but not impossible. |
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I'm sure you won't find the NSA HOWTO on recovering data on Google :) |
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