On 10/08/10 13:04, Mark Rogers wrote:
However, customers like to tick boxes, and the "secure erase" function of the hard drive seems to tick more boxes than DBAN, not least because DBAN goes out of its way not to provide any warranty.
Do any of the drive manufacturers warranty the performance of the secure erase feature then...seems unlikely.
I get the box ticking thing, but I mean ok, put it another way. I have some Seagate drives in my machine that shipped with a firmware bug that can effectively offline them, without much chance of user recovery and with no warning just because an internal event log rolls over.
So if Seagate can ship drives with a bug as massive as that in their primary function. What are the chances that a little used and sparsely documented feature is checked heavily in QA before firmware builds are signed off ?
DBAN cannot afford to imply any warranty I doubt that statement is any reflection of known flaws in the software, more likely that their lawyer made them put it in.