History in your computer

[thecoalman]

There are already 64 gig flash drives for a grand. Not long and computers will use this type of storage exclusively. Just my opinion though.

no doubt about the flash, no moving parts to break.

[gadgetguy]

There are already 64 gig flash drives for a grand. Not long and computers will use this type of storage exclusively. Just my opinion though.

no doubt about the flash, no moving parts to break.

And yet my thumb drive stopped working after only about 6 months.
Even so, I agree, this is the direction storage will go.

[GimpGuy2000]

There are already 64 gig flash drives for a grand. Not long and computers will use this type of storage exclusively. Just my opinion though.

no doubt about the flash, no moving parts to break.

And yet my thumb drive stopped working after only about 6 months.
Even so, I agree, this is the direction storage will go.

6 months? Wow. I've had one for over 3 years still working. Did you have a warranty on it? I think every area of technology has something that won't last but the same copy of a product can last a long time, probably just a bad seed you got. What brand?

Paul

[gadgetguy]

IIRC original warranty was 90 days. Brand? Don't know. All printing has been worn off. It also has a slot for CF and that still works so I use it to transfer pictures. Only the built in memory doesn't work.

[ZAPPER]

Do all that then toss it in a WOODCHIPPER!

It might be pointless, but I bet it'd be about 1/10th of a second of fun and make a really neat noise.

Yep, My brother tossed a cat into a wood chipper once, it went "MeeeeYooooooooooowwwwwww"

Meanwhile back on the ranch....

I had heard that magnetic recording media leaves a shadow of everything that was recorded on it. I also seem to recall that it was not all that uncommon for cassette tapes to be "salvaged" or "stripped" or something to that effect to get back to previous recordings. (Or was that "Perry Mason"?) At any rate, for personal use, there will be a point of diminishing returns, I mean how secret are your finances? Or on the other end, What are you trying to hide from the law. Because only the law has pockets deep enough to reassemble a shattered drive and examine every fragment for every shadow of every write that ever went on that disk. And it is not really that their pockets are that deep, it would be more like a profit making company(unless being paid by the gov't) would not waste money on something that would provide no return where as a gov't either would not care about the cost, not know the cost or be driven by a precieved absolute need to know.


There is one thing for sure, fire cleans!

[GimpGuy2000]

Nope. You are correct. Tapes were recoverable as well. There was a magnetic imprint left even after being erased or recorded over. Part due to information on a tape or hard drive alike. The information isn't written over exactly as the original information is written, leaving portions of not erased but simply, ignored info. Mainly though, there is an imprint which isn't easily dispatched unless as you say, fire cleans. I recall a crime case, I must have been about 10, they recovered audio left by the murder or the victim, I don't recall exactly maybe even both, anyway, I was watching this and they took the tape, found the smallest imprints of sound throughout the tape , put it together bit by bit, and had a whole playback, and there they had the evidence.

And the point though, I believe Nitro wanted to recover data, not hide or erase it. Of course the mentioned methods would be quite costly. My suggestion to anyone who encounters data loss, backup, backup, backup. It doesn't hurt to waste some cheap disk and back up info even if you don't feel it's worth it as you may want that info later on.


Cat in a wood chipper? Tender viddles huh?

[Dv8ted2]

when you delete files does the file that you just deleted, can it be accessed again?

Yes, it can and often stays until it is overwritten with something else. This is how forensics people nail people that do not know better.