SSDs also support ATA Secure Erase (controller-level encrypt-then-discard-key) -- which should, in theory, be significantly more thorough than OS-level overwrite.
This is also the NIST-approved method.
Royce Williams
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2025-12-30 02:51:08 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…s0ut
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