Zeroing Out HD..How Long?

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Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
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In regards to the efficacy of zeroing out the drive:

http://16systems.com/zero/index.html

$40 prize for their "challenge?" That would not cover the wage costs of a tech to open up a UPS box and hook it up to an analysis machine. It might not even be worth the time to look up the traffic stats of their website to see if a company would get any sort of advertising buzz from it.
Where did you see $40, I saw $500.

Should someone win, they get to keep the drive. They also will receive $500.00 USD and the title "King (or Queen) of Data Recovery".

I still would like to see some service that claims that they can do it and what they charge for it, and a documented case of what was recovered.

Even a link to a site that claims to produce software that can do this might help me become more of a believer that this type of recovery is a serious data security threat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_recove...itten_data

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=recover+overwritten+data&btnG=Search