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<blockquote data-quote="Digerati" data-source="post: 665755" data-attributes="member: 59833">It does not change anything. With a clean format, everything will NOT be gone as you claimed - regardless who owns the drive now, or before.If the idea is to prevent the next user from &quot;accidentally&quot; stumbling on any of your old data with File Explorer, a simple delete or even a format will prevent that. But if the new user attempts to &quot;recover&quot; any previously deleted data, or wants to see if there is anything on a &quot;formatted&quot; SSD, this can easily be done with any number of readily available programs. <a href="https://www.easeus.com/data-recovery/other-recovery-software/SSD-drive-recovery.htm" target="_blank">EaseUS Data Recovery</a> is excellent for that. <a href="https://www.remorecover.com/windows/ssd-data-recovery.html" target="_blank">Remo Recover</a> works too. Of course, the more the new user uses the drive (HD or SSD) the less chances there will be to recover any previously stored data. But not the point here. The idea is to stop a malicious personal&nbsp; intentionally looking for any previously saved data. It is finite but with modern SSDs (compared to first generation SSDs) the numbers are so large, it is highly unlikely any &quot;normal&quot; user will ever reach that number for it will take many years to get there. This is exactly why more and more data centers are using SSDs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Digerati, post: 665755, member: 59833"] It does not change anything. With a clean format, everything will [U]NOT[/U] be gone as you claimed - regardless who owns the drive now, or before. If the idea is to prevent the next user from "accidentally" stumbling on any of your old data with File Explorer, a simple delete or even a format will prevent that. But if the new user attempts to "recover" any previously deleted data, or wants to see if there is anything on a "formatted" SSD, this can easily be done with any number of readily available programs. [URL='https://www.easeus.com/data-recovery/other-recovery-software/SSD-drive-recovery.htm']EaseUS Data Recovery[/URL] is excellent for that. [URL='https://www.remorecover.com/windows/ssd-data-recovery.html']Remo Recover[/URL] works too. Of course, the more the new user uses the drive (HD or SSD) the less chances there will be to recover any previously stored data. But not the point here. The idea is to stop a malicious personal [U]intentionally [/U]looking for any previously saved data. It is finite but with modern SSDs (compared to first generation SSDs) the numbers are so large, it is highly unlikely any "normal" user will ever reach that number for it will take many years to get there. This is exactly why more and more data centers are using SSDs. [/QUOTE]

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