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What is a Fingerprint?
A Fingerprint, is a term used to display a copy of the erasure report on the boot sector of the device in question. As we can leave a fingerprint on t...
Wed, 22 Apr, 2015 at 4:51 AM
What is a Security Freeze
What is a Freeze Lock?  Freeze locks are ATA commands that prevent interaction with certain drive features, including removal of HPA and DCO areas, pa...
Thu, 5 Nov, 2015 at 1:28 PM
How Many Overwriting Rounds Are Required to Erase a Hard Disk?
How Many Overwriting Rounds Are Required to Erase a Hard Disk? Occasionally, customers have requested my advice regarding which erasure standard tha...
Thu, 5 Nov, 2015 at 1:34 PM
What is an HPA? What is a DCO?
What is an HPA? The Host Protected Area (HPA) is an area of memory on a hard drive that is not normally visible to a computer’s Operating System (OS) – for ...
Tue, 29 Mar, 2016 at 1:33 PM