@User_already_exist to [email protected] • 9 months agoHow do I wipe a modern SSD to prevent data recovery?message-square73arrow-up1115arrow-down15file-text
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minus-square@Brkdncrlink9•9 months agoYou can’t fill the drive. The drive decides when to use its buffered free storage blocks. It’s at the hardware level and only the Secure Erase command will clear it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•9 months agoRight, I read some more of the comments and realized that’s what some of the “unreported space” is used for. Makes sense, thanks!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-1•9 months agoYou fill up the usable space. Or the visible space. No one will disamble the device and read from the raw storage.
You can’t fill the drive. The drive decides when to use its buffered free storage blocks. It’s at the hardware level and only the Secure Erase command will clear it.
Right, I read some more of the comments and realized that’s what some of the “unreported space” is used for. Makes sense, thanks!
You fill up the usable space. Or the visible space. No one will disamble the device and read from the raw storage.
Then why do that when you can do a secure erase in seconds?