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Old 06-05-2009, 09:36 AM  
rowan
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Modern hard drives have a built in secure erase function.

http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml

If you're prepared to wait and do multiple passes on a large drive (with each pass potentially taking several hours) then you're probably too paranoid and would be better destroying it.
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