Wipe Any PC in 2 Minutes! - Redkey USB #Helpful Post

ow you might think that when you delete

a file or especially if you format or

wipe an entire Drive whether it's a hard

drive or an SSD like this one that that

data is just gone but in actuality if

you were to properly delete every single

file that you deleted from your computer

it would bear a significant cost both in

terms of time because you would have to

actually take time out of your drives

busy schedule running your OS or your

games or whatever else to write ones or

zeros to that entire portion of the

drive and in terms of durability

especially with SSDs which only have a

finite number of times that they can be

written so the way this actually works

is either in the MBR or GPT which is the

GID partition table the entry for the

file gets deleted but the actual data

stays until it's incidentally

overwritten so what that means is if you

were ever going to recycle a computer

drive or if you were gonna give a

computer away to a friend you need to

make sure that all of your selfies and I

really do mean all of them have been

properly deleted from your machine and

that is where today's product comes in

this is the red key USB which allows you

to quickly and easily wipe any computer

and also will probably be showing you

guys a free way to do this because this

is sort of unnecessary but for you free

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so let's start by taking a look at

what's in here so supposedly we should

just plug this in and it'll give us its

own little screen and it'll start wiping

so this is actually the original red key

USB there's this funny there I don't

know what to make of this guy so it's a

Kickstarter that did apparently deliver

to its backers really really small

campaign I think they only raised about

like eleven thousand dollars or

something like that and then the site is

now down in spite of the fact that the

only instructions I can find for how to

update and your red key includes

lifetime updates are going to their site

and downloading the latest updates

although they're working on an online

updater for the new one but then the

site doesn't work at all so I don't know

how their online up to you is gonna work

anyway they've got a new campaign that

actually ends in like 36 hours it just

took us this long to get to this I don't

know where I'm going with this let's

just screw it let's let's try it what is

this I guess just for packaging keep it

oh just to keep it in there yeah so the

blue key is nothing this is just a 16

gig key so actually you know what Jake

can use this one to make like our free

version well about that I was thinking

about using a tool called dban but I

found that that's only for hard drives

and then I was looking for a free SSD

alternative and it doesn't really seem

like there's a lot unless you just get

the tool from your SSDs manufacturer

like Coursera has the tools Samsung has

a tool Kingston has a tool but it's not

showing up and with those tools you can

secure erase and then there's also in

Windows if you just reset like you can

show them right now it'll give you the

option to securely reset the PC which we

assume is a similar similar kind of tool

so maybe we should try that out keep my

files to remove everything right yeah

let's do it well we got an extra drive

here so see remove files and clean the

drive this might take a few hours this

won't take long

you send it you're sending me real mixed

messages here Windows health god we're

just doing it I thought we were I guess

so we're doing it it's fine

we have an extra drive to try this well

now we have to let this run yeah

what's actually doing something now yeah

that's good okay so now while this one

continues to run I think we're probably

at like 10% or something I notice we're

gonna go ahead and we're gonna try our

red key on our second test bench so you

can see here we've got our pictures

including the ones we don't want anyone

to see and we're just gonna shut the

system down we're gonna pop this in here

why are they so hairy David cuz grown

men have hair okay Wow you know just

because you can grow a nice beard David

not everyone can do that voice crack

dammit do you remember what their key is

f2f 11 delete key VJs no I just I just

want the boot menu okay well it would

have been f8 then but I think I'm

already gonna go into Mouse all right so

I'm gonna go with non UEFI yeah I think

you restarted oh no

okay loading please wait okay here we go

oh god okay warning this device will

erase the contents of any disk detected

wipe will commence automatically after

60 seconds that's actually pretty handy

yeah you can't click f1 and start now

I'm gonna reset you mean I really should

we see the advanced menu yeah so if you

remember the keys or if you have the

manual nearby then look we don't have

much time you actually don't need the

GUI where is it do they actually not

just have all this in here we're running

out of time here close here it is check

that out main screen wiping screen you

may hear audio beeps during the last 10

seconds of the countdown timer if your

computer has a built-in speaker okay f6

advanced Boop will erase the contents of

any disk detected method random scramble

okay oh it's got like government

standards that's pretty common of

Defense

Reutimann

seven random pass method dang 33 random

pass method that's the like yeah data

zeroing let's to zero well random is the

default okay we'll do random eight

one round ah should we just go back and

then click start let's go back let's do

the default let's do the default f3 f3

cancel oh damn it okay I got you oh you

got it nevermind

so I guess we should wait so we can hear

the beeps hey and we're back we said

with ten seconds remaining oh really

do we want to wait the 35 seconds yeah

yeah I want to experience this I don't

think this has a speaker built-in yeah

it's not gonna do it there's a speaker

header right here okay I started okay

some queued discs it found our disc and

remaining time two and a half hours oh

cool it's a good thing we used a one

terabyte drive with this one good thing

we did one pass pretty cool three

o'clock okay it'd be done just before

the end of the day why don't we go do

the why don't we go do this smart your

garage door video then whoa so we're

back our data is wiped we can remove the

red key and power off the machine so we

need to put this SSD in a computer and

see if there's any data on it still yes

recup is it actually free the free

version is free all right what sort of

files are we trying to recover I mean

we're specifically looking for pictures

with much faster scan yes we could

search for do you want to search for all

yes which will take a long time yeah

this drive is is blank AF so we're

probably gonna have to set up make a

partition and stuff yeah yeah there we

go no files were found

would you like to scan again with deep

scan enabled note this can take over an

hour on a large drive will not that

large of a drive okay 23 files huh

Oh interesting this device just

irrecoverably destroys data so we should

not be able to find anything

and if that's just like the Boot Record

stuff yeah it seems likely cuz it's also

at the zero percent so we might Pacific

leave that should we check the windows

thing then ah yeah it's gonna take a

little longer to scan I reckon

well let's throw it on my computer oh

this might not actually be plugged in

monitoring up what is your problem you

know he does this professionally so our

first drive the one that we hit with the

red key that one's over there and we're

trying to see if we can find any

remnants of data on it then we grabbed

the other one that we used the windows

tool on and we're gonna go ahead and see

if I don't know we can find I mean I

guess specifically those pictures we're

just gonna deep scan it right off the

bat your photos or did you just do any

files any files any files we're gonna

get a lot of files okay so what come

back it's a thousand files yeah but we

know what they're called okay sure sure

Canaries folder looking for the nudes

folder all right seven hours later we

are finally done so this one actually

went quite quickly and it found a fair

number of things that were either

partially or fully overwritten but we're

still here with that said our photos are

not pretty much everything here is like

some kind of Windows junk like it's all

from the windows folder the for an

average person this seems fine but it

also assumes that your computer is still

functioning mm-hmm which is where the

red key comes in I'm gonna be honest

with you guys I was actually expecting

to kind of trash on this cuz I was like

what 45 bucks for a USB key like what do

you you know there's free utilities blah

blah blah and and and honestly there are

utilities out there but one of the ones

that we found that was somewhat feature

comparable was $10 and then you have to

provide your own USB Drive and this one

is like it's just dead simple to use so

here's our result from the one terabyte

drive we did actually managed to find

seven files what even are they

I don't know there's something so

something so something dot flvs and they

are apparently excellent status so like

we can go ahead try to recover one of

them but I can pretty much guarantee

this is garbage let's let's go ahead so

do we have anything that can read a

flash video cannot render the file how

big is the phone 600 makes apparently

apparently but also just be recognizing

random numbers as FLV I don't even think

I had any FLDS on that drive yeah no

this is broken I think this is just

garbage and that's only one that's only

one pass

so like bottom line then looks pretty

good to me if you have to do it a lot I

mean should we use it on James yeah

should we just like go around and wipe

everyone's computers I think that would

be quite the waste of money

whoever actually ends up with I think

our recommendation here yeah for like 45

bucks if you do more than just a little

bit of secure data erasing you might

have to buy a couple I mean yeah there's

gonna be command-line utilities that you

can use to do this sort of thing but

this is easy enough to use that pretty

much anyone could do it so looking

pretty good to me normally these sponsor

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