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How do I wipe a modern SSD to prevent data recovery?
(lemmy.world)
Install all your steam library to full your SSD. Should do the job. Empty the disk, rinse and repeat a few times.
You smash it in 100 different places
Smash them with a hammer until they're sand.
If it is a large concern, then encryption will help. There are even drives with built-in encryption exactly for this purpose.
Otherwise, will with non-repeated data. Repeat 9 times. (A heuristic, based on something I read 10 years ago.)
Do not use repeated digits. Those are optimized out.
Crack it open and run s drill through the center of each flash chip.
Microwave
Fill the drive 100% using data duplicator then delete everything on the drive. Repeat a few times to ensure you scrub all blocks. There is no need to physically destroy the drive.
edit: fair criticism of this approach in cases when the data is unencryptd and the hard drives has bad blocks. I just wanted to give a counter to the destroying hardware approach which isn't necessary warranted
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