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How do I securely wipe data on a laptop with a SSD ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Winter Soldier" data-source="post: 666329" data-attributes="member: 59377"><p>"Newer solid state drives supporting the TRIM command behave differently. When an operating system deletes a file from an SSD, it sends a TRIM command to the drive, and the drive erases the data. On a solid state drive, it takes longer to overwrite a used sector rather than writing data to an unused sector, so erasing the sector ahead of time increases performance.</p><p></p><p><strong>This means that file-recovery tools won’t work on SSDs. You also shouldn’t wipe SSDs – just deleting the files will do</strong>. SSDs have a limited number of write cycles, and wiping them will use up write cycles with no benefit."</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/115573/htg-explains-why-you-only-have-to-wipe-a-disk-once-to-erase-it/" target="_blank">You Only Need to Wipe a Disk Once to Securely Erase It</a></p><p></p><p>We do not need your sarcasm that shows just your great rudeness, if you were a smart person then you might understand that English is not my main language (in relation to electrons deleted of course).</p><p>But no surprise seeing the type of person that I have in front of me...</p><p></p><p>I simply do not have to prove anything to you and I won't pretend that people follow what I say.</p><p></p><p>I think in your case, just copy/paste is not sufficient to assert the concreteness of a concept, if your knowledge is only based on web articles like I believe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Winter Soldier, post: 666329, member: 59377"] "Newer solid state drives supporting the TRIM command behave differently. When an operating system deletes a file from an SSD, it sends a TRIM command to the drive, and the drive erases the data. On a solid state drive, it takes longer to overwrite a used sector rather than writing data to an unused sector, so erasing the sector ahead of time increases performance. [B]This means that file-recovery tools won’t work on SSDs. You also shouldn’t wipe SSDs – just deleting the files will do[/B]. SSDs have a limited number of write cycles, and wiping them will use up write cycles with no benefit." [URL='https://www.howtogeek.com/115573/htg-explains-why-you-only-have-to-wipe-a-disk-once-to-erase-it/']You Only Need to Wipe a Disk Once to Securely Erase It[/URL] We do not need your sarcasm that shows just your great rudeness, if you were a smart person then you might understand that English is not my main language (in relation to electrons deleted of course). But no surprise seeing the type of person that I have in front of me... I simply do not have to prove anything to you and I won't pretend that people follow what I say. I think in your case, just copy/paste is not sufficient to assert the concreteness of a concept, if your knowledge is only based on web articles like I believe. [/QUOTE]
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