Disk sanitization
This chapter describes disk sanitization and the process of physically removing data from a disk. This process involves overwriting patterns on the disk in a manner that precludes the recovery of that data by any known recovery methods.
It also describes the Data ONTAP disk sanitization feature and briefly addresses data confidentiality, technology drivers, costs and risks, and the sanitizing operation.
This chapter includes the following sections:
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