Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA

Subject	Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
References	(1 earlier) <060920151057407354%nospam@nospam.invalid> <Sb-dnR_bzOIgxXHInZ2dnUU7-S2dnZ2d@giganews.com> <060920151232278550%nospam@nospam.invalid> <Ksmdnei1uO4GCnDInZ2dnUU7-fOdnZ2d@giganews.com> <070920151130027775%nospam@nospam.invalid>
From	Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca>
Date	2015-09-07 13:02 -0400
Message-ID	<dNidndA_IvCEXnDInZ2dnUU7-SOdnZ2d@giganews.com> (permalink)

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On 2015-09-07 11:30, nospam wrote:
> In article <Ksmdnei1uO4GCnDInZ2dnUU7-fOdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
> <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>
>>> drive recovery companies, such as drivesavers, can interface directly
>>> to the flash chips and read the blocks directly, but someone would
>>> really want to know what's on your ssd to bother going to that extent.
>>
>> The other tactic would be to completely fill the disk with random data
>> every few months to write over the deleted data.  I wrote a program for
>> that as a pre-disposal step for unencrypted hard drives.  It could
>> easily be used for this purpose as well.
>
> that reduces the lifetime of the ssd.

Hmm.  1,000 writes (as a very conservative minimum).

4 times per year.

250 years.

I'll just have to take that risk.

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Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-06 10:16 -0400
  Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-06 10:57 -0400
    Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-06 11:16 -0400
      Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-06 12:32 -0400
        Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-09-06 18:30 -0600
        Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-07 09:56 -0400
          Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-07 11:30 -0400
            Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-07 13:02 -0400
        Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-07 13:45 -0400
          Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-07 14:04 -0400
            Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-08 00:54 -0400
              Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-08 01:00 -0400
  Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-09-06 09:36 -0600
    Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-06 11:55 -0400
      Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-07 13:42 -0400
        Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-07 14:00 -0400
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    Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-07 13:41 -0400
      Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-07 14:04 -0400
        Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-07 14:10 -0400
          Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-07 14:12 -0400
            Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-07 14:15 -0400
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  Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2015-09-08 23:05 -0400
    Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-08 23:13 -0400
      Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-09 11:01 -0400
        Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-09 11:17 -0400
    Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-09 00:38 -0400
      Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-09 11:04 -0400
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