If I delete all data on my SSD and then format the drive, can I still recover that deleted data?
I am asking this because I am planning on selling an SSD of mine, but I want to securely erase all data on it, so it can not be recovered by the buyer.
If I delete all data on my SSD and then format the drive, can I still recover that deleted data?
Jaxson Russell
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Cooper Hernandez
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Aiden Lewis
noko
Thomas Robinson
Why, you got something to hide OP?
Leo Sullivan
Yes. My personal pictures and documents. Nothing illegal though.
Andrew Kelly
Run a multipass DBAN to be sure.
Easton Martin
Use file shredder.
David Young
If you're selling it to a normie you shouldn't worry about it. No way they will ever bother trying to recover documents.
Brandon Reyes
Who knows who's going to buy it.
Justin Sanchez
Encrypt then format. Done
Andrew Edwards
Use something like DiskWipe.exe and do a single pass of 0's or randoms, that will make sure your data is erased (assuming that the buyer doesn't have government grade data recovery equipment)
William Cruz
no information is ever lost, just depends on how much effort people are willing to expend to get to it
Tyler Perez
You can only retrace so much entropy
Xavier Lee
dumb fucks here assume SSDs be like HDDS
get learnt fagits
usenix.org
WITH FLASH
YOU BETTER SMASH
or FDE from the start, and use the reco proc (cryptsetup faq) when wiping
Luke Thomas
I'm not too up-to-date on the specifics of SSDs in this regard- I know they get write wear, but I think this is leveled such that "stuck" data would be no different from random data in terms of preserved dataintegrity. A random-digit wipe will realistically sanitize data in a way that it is essentially unrecoverable.
But you probably should do that random digit wipe because just formatting your drive and read all sorts of data lying around that recovery software can find.
Ethan Howard
Yes. Its not really difficult either. SSDs, SD cards, thumb drives, all NAND/flash storage devices are super easy to recover data from. Normie tier recovery software is available that will pull up most of your deleted files with the click of a single button. That goes for your phone too, so don't ever sell or throw away a functioning phone with compromising information on it.
Angel Reyes
stick it in the microwave for a couple of minutes should do the trick
Oliver Torres
>apparently no data can ever be lost or deleted
>still cant save on my drive after its full
Oliver Watson
your cp habit is gonna get found out sooner or later, either hand yourself in or find a rafter and some rope
Leo Torres
>no data can ever be lost* or completely deleted*
*: if you are in possession of an electron microscope and unlimited free time
Andrew Evans
kek
Michael Sanders
Just dd it full of zero, should be enough
Aiden Gutierrez
Just write it over with memes, ones, zeroes, dank memes and zeroes again. Then reformat it and install windows on it and make sure it looks like you used it. Nobody will suspect there's something left over under there.
Gavin Martin
Does Windows' full format write something on the entire disk? How do I do this?