Saturday, May 4, 2019

SSD vs Hard drive secure erase

I know that when files are deleted they aren't really completely erased. The drive just says hey this space is free and you can overwrite it. With programs like Boot and Nuke and Eraser .etc. you can write over those sections with random bytes.


How does this process differ with SSDs? Does trimming the drive with disk optimizer remove the files completely?

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