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Originally Posted by qxm
Here is the deal... I do have some Tax files, ID and CC scans in that HDD so under those circumstances would u send that drive for "replacement" knowing that someone could bring that drive back to life and steal some important info?
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Hard drives are extremely cheap these days so it shouldn't be big deal buying a new one. But I wouldn't worry too much about sending it in, if a hard drive has been used for a long time I doubt they'd fix it and send it out (refurb). Most of the refurbished drives they send out probably have only been slightly used.
They also run a low level format normal users can't do. Yes there's tools that say low level format but it's not the same thing. You could also run some tools yourself to overwrite all the data, although anything is recoverable by the right person. But after writing over the drive for a day or two and the formatting seagate will do, it would be extremely hard for anyone to get the data off there. Most people looking for info to steal off old drives go for drives that are easy to recover data from. Most of them would not have the tools to even try to recover data from a HDD in that condition.