Having just bought a new USB HDD, I am about to sell the old one. All necessary information has been transferred and the old disk formatted, but I want to satisfy my paranoid cravings and wipe it as ...

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<Have done a couple of searches on this but have found nothing so far...> Can anyone with expertise in the art of hard-drive wiping tell me: Is it common knowledge that dban [as downloaded from ...