Hide Your Secrets FOREVER! - Erasing Data Securely 

Techquickie with no intro. I like this trend. Also, less than 5 minutes

Dennis is quality control, inserts self as meme

Even if I did I wouldn't get caught Denis Steal Cutlery

-Do you have extra 5 minutes per day? -No. Well, I had, but I watched Techquickie

I like Riley doing these. He did a good job.

Pffft me??? **Stops everything and intensely focuses on vid**

I just let Linus drop them.

Riley is my only secret and I NEVER want him to go away.

I can finally erase my Detective Pikachu X Sonic the Hedgehog fan fiction

wow linus looks different

That was really well done, I think I can say it's actually one of my favorite videos on this channel.

Thanks I can now successfully delete my 16 terabyte homework folder my parents keep asking about.

I love Seeing riley all the time now! ALL HAIL RILEYTECHTIPS!

I once read on reddit that the best way to securely wipe a hard drive is to unscrew it, take out the platters and bend them. So I gave it a go and just as I started bending the platter it exploded into thousands of tiny shards all over my keyboard, desk, the floor, my lap, and the monitor. It also cut up my thumb and some fingers so much that they bled and left a trail of blood all the way through the house to the bathroom where I had to bandaid them up. Then it took me an hour to vacuum up all the shards but there are probably still some in my keyboard. I was lucky none got in my eyes.

THIS IS THE BEST SPEAKER OF THIS CHANNEL.

Another nifty trick for clearing deleted data from a hard drive is to use your copy of spinrite if you have one. Delete the data then run spinrite on level 4. This will invert every sector as it passes and then change them back again to what they originally were it does this to check that the drive is functioning properly but in the process it also rewrites the content of the drive twice over the existing data without damaging the existing data. not long ago I gave a spare 3 terabyte drive to a friend who needed it for a CCTV system. To erase my data I formatted the drive and then around spinright on it. The driver was healthy and empty.

Riley was such a good addition to the team! I really like his style (I don't mean his clothes)!

Felt pretty confident when my mom and I took a drill to the 4 harddrives out of my deceased stepfather's computer. She was just gonna leave it on the curb as is.

I’m feeling this new format. Giving you that sweet sweet thumbs up.

Excellent video very well presented. Great job, Riley! Thanks.

don't ever sell used hard drives - Drives are cheap, Data is expensive. It's not worth it in the long run

I used to take out my drives ol' Yeller style...This is going to save me a bundle waiting a week to wipe my drive 35 times...

Me: *delete something* My pc : It'S fReE rEaL eStAtE

i spend my extra 5 minutes a day for techquickie

Riley is doing really a great job here. Pls more Riley everywhere (and also more Alex)

I once tried to recover data from a faulty USB drive (would crash often and leave a lot of files corrupted or undetectable) and a laptop hard drive, turns out all those video game save files, pictures from city trips with my ex-girlfriend and pornography that I thought was very naughty at the time but now know is near child's play were still there. The only thing was, I had to put it all on a 2 TB external hard drive to be able to actually store all the files that were recovered and manually filter them. Turns out that in the process of recovering files from a storage device, you also generate a lot of duplets and (sometimes due to being unreadable) junk that you cannot narrow down using an algorithm.

Wow. How did you read my mind. I needed this vid.

That's the most complete Techquickie I ever saw.

the best way to wipe your drive is to ENCRYPT your drive. WHen you're ready to erase, assign a 128bit encryption key, then throw away the key. This makes "wiping" the drive instantaneously.

0:08 haha XD "Linus Sebastian fan art" and "where is the internet?"

2:00 So a bit represented as a range from 0 to 1 inclusive when imaging the magnetic properties of the drive can be 1.03? Does the bit also go up to 11?

I absolutely love how they're trying new styles with this channel it's honestly refreshing

The SSD part was a bit too superficial, IMHO.

Trim is good if you experience data loss so you could recover it again. (That happens one time for me) so that was good for me that I had Teim enabled

sweeeeeet!!!!! Nothing like some good ole tech news in the morning.

VERY WELL DONE. PERFECTLY PRESTENTED THANK YOU! :)

I heard a good way is to have a ready encryption at your disposal. So you can than just format it and once wipe it.

Also some nicer harddrives and ssds will have ISE or Instant Secure Erase, and they can be wiped instantly. Since they encrypt all data on the disk, so just wiping the encryption key is enough to full make all data unrecoverable.

Wow, I see his eyes and they are beautiful!

Thanks Riley !

This is all well and good. I tend to buy off lease business computers. They have a system to protect sensitive data when they return the computer. They take the drive out and shred it. It is a lot quicker than overwriting the drive. You might try this only use a large hammer when you sell the computer, and it feels good. A big hammer can be very therapuetic.

I love LTT cast, but I think that Riley is far and away the most well spoken out of the cast aside from Linus. I'd love to see him do any video Linus doesn't (aside from the ones Brandon and Terran, love when those guys talk about their niches).

2:05 - the platters never spin toward the reading head :-D

I work for a tech disposal company and we have wiping suites and shredders. So that's where my old drives go ;)

Riley without Mustache scares me

Thank you for letting me know that trim isn't an acronym, most important part of this video imo.

Therapist: Glasses-less Riley isn't real, he can't hurt you. Glasses-less Riley:

I managed to format a drive and install a new OS on it and still managed to recover nearly 61% of all the old data on it. So if I want to securely delete something I allays use a 3 pass rule. Overwrite everything 3 times and it passes into legends and is gone. 1 pass is not allways enough, two is usually good enough, but on occasion some thing can still be recovered. So I use 3 passes. I just wish that there were a quicker way to do this.

Where are ur glasses mate

is it good enough to use 1 pass quick erase dban against recovery software like recuva etc?

Thanks for reminding me of that IDE hard drive that smacked me in the face a few weeks ago and is unbootable thanks to a bad format. I might need to get some IDE-SATA-USB adapters and format it so my ancient Packard-Bell has a backup drive now.

Its weird to see Riley without his beard

AAAHHHHH THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE VID MAKES ME BLIND

I have recovered data from wiped disks, but it can take a lot of effort and needs special hardware to succeed. Also, it costs a real lot!

+1 for managing to work Tim Heidecker into the video.

Yeah Riley!!! We need more Riley!

What about using a bulk tape eraser? Sure it'll wipe out the servo tracks making the drive a brick but it's another (quick) way to secure a HDD.

This was my main worry about SSDs. I'm still not confident I want to use an SSD, but this is one less thing to worry about with them at least.

I was flabbergasted by Dennis.

en windows: abres el símbolo de sistema como administrador ejecutas «diskpart» haces «list disk» haces «select disk #» (reemplazar # con el número de disco que deseas limpiar) haces «clean all» tarda, depende del dispositivo y la interfaz no se recomienda en SSD ni otro almacenamiento sólido

but who doesn't want to manually physically destroy their hard drives? Hammer + drill + saw + fire + acid should about secure things.

3:04 - Undelete tools can still recover files on unencrypted SSD's

Can a partially overwritten (corrupted) file even be recovered to a point where it's useful to someone? My guess is that semi random writes that would take less time than a full wipe would suffice for most people.

Will it save my files of who I want to trade as a Laker next season??

Which tool (except a hammer) would you recommend to wipe a NAS hdd if its broken and Windows does not recognize it anymore?

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Who doesn't love a good Riley quickie?

What about phones? Does eMMC or SDcards have trim too?

Hey Linus you got a new haircut?

Better colour on this video than usual :)

Fiy burning or trying to damage a hdd dosnt keep ur data safe, forensic tools can still aquire alot of info from them despite them being damaged

My son wraps my old hard drives in tannerite and lights it up with a bullet. That's far more entertaining than scrubbing a beat up old hard drive, unless you want to sale it.

Ah yes, PESONAL SECRETS

Loving your new hairstyle Linus!

I like a lot more when this guy is not making himself a clown

Make an episode explaining differents distribution of Linux (the most used). I know you explained it a little with the Linux gaming video but I'd like to see some others

4:30 "Editor - Not a Robot" ha! yeah right!

AH! Monster! Glasses! Put on the glasses! :D

Microwave it, raymond reddington taught me that

Riley looks like a sleepy panda without his glasses.

So ssd and mobile phone memory (ufs) work similarly like you delete sth and it actually gets deleted?

Destroy the hard drive

Techquickie is slowly morphing into Linus Tech Tips...

Techquickie: "at some point you had data you wanted to get rid of without a trace-" hillary clinton: 👀

0:54 Haha I see what you did there XD

Riley lookin like a play boi!

So 3 wipes should be fine to use on mechanical drive?

the "dd" command does a good job of that

1:35 1010101 upside down is LOLOLOLOL. That's what I learnt from this video. Every day's a school day.

00:14 Thanks Riley

So then how do programs like Active@ data recovery recover data from overwritten drives?

i recovered a lot of drives even after formatting to a different filesystem, the best you can do is to destroy the partition table and recreate it then format

3:39 milk was spilled here

Riley for the win!!!! Great Video!

Someone should make a video buing hard drives and running data recovery software like recuva and see what they can find from previous owners.

Great video!

damnit. 1:33 when all those popped out I just kept seeing "lolololololololololol"

Just give it to Linus for about 5 minutes and he'll drop it for you.

What happens when you clear the data from secure eraser? Do the deleted files return? Or not? And does secure eraser erase videos that's been deleted? These questions apply for Android phones.

Is there a way to just completely wipe all data that is marked as "deleted" but not touching normal data? So that i dont have to wipe the whole disk?