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    Raid 0 or SSD?

    raid0 on mechanical drives are useless unless you really need shitloads of storage you don't care about. raid0 on ssd is almost always overkill for things like OS++, if coming from mechanical drives, a single ssd will feel like a whole new world.
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    mkfs.ext3 gets stuck at 3184/44713 then massive IO errors

    Try new firmware on the wd greens, looks like you got the old faulty one.
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    vMotion with different CPU's

    The only downside is that you lose the possibility of using cpu features that are newer than your EVC level. Usually this is no big deal, but for cetain specialized software, it could matter.
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    Debate between Lawyers and Programmer on Data wiping on Hard drive- who's right?

    SSDs are completely different, and yes, you can't be sure that overwritten data is actually overwritten. On the flipside, with the new modern garbage collection that actually reads the ntfs headers to get info about what it can delete, you can't recover deleted files either, even if not...
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    Debate between Lawyers and Programmer on Data wiping on Hard drive- who's right?

    Noone has ever managed a recovery of an overwritten digital magnetic harddrive. Deleted files are a whole different ballgame, as long as only the filesystem entry and not the actual data has been touched. Read the links posted above.
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    OpenZFS NAS (BSD, Illumos, Linux, OSX, Solaris, Windows + Storage Spaces) with napp-it web-gui

    That's correct. If you want to have zfs penetrating directly into the vm, you would have to use zones instead of vmware.
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    Debate between Lawyers and Programmer on Data wiping on Hard drive- who's right?

    Also added the Wright, Kleiman and Sundhar (2008) link: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/security-corner/the-great-drive-wiping-controversy-settled-at-last/ I realize it's not a primary source, but the original site seems to have died. The presumed author also posts here...
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    Debate between Lawyers and Programmer on Data wiping on Hard drive- who's right?

    The "recent" researcher you're pointing to is probably the 1996 paper here: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec96/full_papers/gutmann/index.html He has later posted a comment saying it's no longer possible on newer drives: http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2005/Jul/464 And you...
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    Debate between Lawyers and Programmer on Data wiping on Hard drive- who's right?

    This will obviously work, but it has the nasty sideeffect, to potential law enforcement, that it looks like an encrypted disk. And in some countries, it's illegal to not provide the correct encryption keys. (USA and UK being the two major ones from the "first" world I guess.) So I'd rather...
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    Debate between Lawyers and Programmer on Data wiping on Hard drive- who's right?

    Thanks, I was not aware this behaviour was changed.
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    OpenZFS NAS (BSD, Illumos, Linux, OSX, Solaris, Windows + Storage Spaces) with napp-it web-gui

    If I understand you correctly, yes. When you create a debian vm on the nfs share, it creates a file that represent the vms harddisk, just format it like you would do with any physical debian installation.
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    Debate between Lawyers and Programmer on Data wiping on Hard drive- who's right?

    It's much easier to read data out of a damaged disk (like you linked to) than an overwritten disk, so no.
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    Recommended duplicate file finder? (binary file compare)

    md5sum and some scripts should be enough. Depending on how specific you want it, the scripts are probably easy to write or find via google.
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    All-in-one Performance Issues?

    CPU figures taken from inside a VM is highly inaccurate, it's better if you check from the vsphere gui.
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    Debate between Lawyers and Programmer on Data wiping on Hard drive- who's right?

    This is not true, a non-quick windows format READS the full disk, it does not write anything more than a quick one. As for wiping, one full overwrite, random or not, is enough. As mentioned above, merely formatting and using it does not guarantee overwriting, unless you filled the disk...
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