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How to securely erase the data from SSD drives
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<blockquote data-quote="bogdan" data-source="post: 2458" data-attributes="member: 2"><p>It seems that manufacturers try to overcome the limited number of writes you can have on a solid state drive (or with any another flash based storage device like USB stick, memory card...etc) and the slower over-writes (writing occurs much faster if the data is placed in a space that never contained anything) and they optimize the SSD by avoiding over-writing when possible, to make the drive faster and increase its lifetime. The drawback is that secure-erase methods that worked for HDDs seem not to be reliable on a SSD. I'm sure future versions will solve this issues.</p><p>The article doesn't exactly offer a way to securely erase the data, instead it offers the advice to encrypt it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bogdan, post: 2458, member: 2"] It seems that manufacturers try to overcome the limited number of writes you can have on a solid state drive (or with any another flash based storage device like USB stick, memory card...etc) and the slower over-writes (writing occurs much faster if the data is placed in a space that never contained anything) and they optimize the SSD by avoiding over-writing when possible, to make the drive faster and increase its lifetime. The drawback is that secure-erase methods that worked for HDDs seem not to be reliable on a SSD. I'm sure future versions will solve this issues. The article doesn't exactly offer a way to securely erase the data, instead it offers the advice to encrypt it. [/QUOTE]
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