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2. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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   A hard disk drive failure occurs when a hard disk drive malfunctions and the stored information cannot be accessed with a properly configured computer. A hard disk failure may occur in the course of normal operation, or due to an external factor such as exposure to fire or water or high magnetic fields, or suffering a sharp impact or ...

3. Data erasure - Wikipedia

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   Data erasure. Data erasure (sometimes referred to as data clearing, data wiping, or data destruction) is a software-based method of data sanitization that aims to completely destroy all electronic data residing on a hard disk drive or other digital media by overwriting data onto all sectors of the device in an irreversible process.

4. Head crash - Wikipedia

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   A head crash. A head crash is a hard-disk failure that occurs when a read–write head of a hard disk drive makes contact with its rotating platter, slashing its surface and permanently damaging its magnetic media. It is most often caused by a sudden severe motion of the disk, for example the jolt caused by dropping a laptop to the ground while ...

5. Gutmann method - Wikipedia

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   Gutmann method. The Gutmann method is an algorithm for securely erasing the contents of computer hard disk drives, such as files. Devised by Peter Gutmann and Colin Plumb and presented in the paper Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory in July 1996, it involved writing a series of 35 patterns over the region to be erased.

6. Degaussing - Wikipedia

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   Degaussing is the process of decreasing or eliminating a remnant magnetic field. It is named after the gauss, a unit of magnetism, which in turn was named after Carl Friedrich Gauss. Due to magnetic hysteresis, it is generally not possible to reduce a magnetic field completely to zero, so degaussing typically induces a very small "known" field ...

7. Data remanence - Wikipedia

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   Hard drive mechanically broken by a data destroying device (after degaussing) Thorough destruction of the underlying storage media is the most certain way to counter data remanence. However, the process is generally time-consuming, cumbersome, and may require extremely thorough methods, as even a small fragment of the media may contain large ...

8. Data sanitization - Wikipedia

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   E-waste pending destruction and e-cycling. Physical erasure involves the manual destruction of stored data. This method uses mechanical shredders or degaussers to shred devices, such as phones, computers, hard drives, and printers, into small individual pieces. Varying levels of data security levels require different levels of destruction.

9. Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology - Wikipedia

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   Software that shows the health of the drive and its smart attributes. [1] Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T., often written as SMART) is a monitoring system included in computer hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). [2] Its primary function is to detect and report various indicators of drive ...