Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: El Capitan - Secure Delete Trash Option gone? Date: 8 Oct 2015 18:51:52 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <081020151327294190%nospam@nospam.invalid> <5616b426$0$24063$c3e8da3$460562f1@news.astraweb.com> X-Trace: individual.net aTPkJLEbibJk5qajJqmTxwkLYxzByWLboagQl2FpYNemR+a6an Cancel-Lock: sha1:y0DLQEjuMMLHrapI9zKSoXr72KY= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:82561 On 2015-10-08, JF Mezei wrote: > I have not checked the current product line, does Apple still sell > machines with spinning rust platters, or is it all SSD now ? > > If Apple intends to move its full product line to SSD, then it makes > sense to remove secure erase (at least until SSD manufacturers provide > low level functions to explicitely zap a page. No need for any of that nonsense if you use full disk encryption. [inconsequential TRIM discussion omitted] -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR