You Need to Do More Than Delete Files on an External Drive to Make Them Permanently Disappear

There’s a trick to thoroughly wiping all your data before you junk your old external solid state drive—or even computer.
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This is what happens to a file when you delete it from your SSD

What this means is that the deleted file is not fully gone and can still be recovered. It's only when the data is overwritten ...
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TEAMGROUP's new P250Q Self-Destruct SSD: erase your data like James Bond in a single click

TL;DR: TEAMGROUP's P250Q Self-Destruct SSD offers innovative one-click data destruction with an independent hardware circuit, ensuring secure and reliable erasure even during power loss. Featuring ...
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Erasing SSDs and Managing Expectations

A recently presented paper about sanitizing solid-state devices (SSDs) and some reaction to it may offer an interesting lesson for EEs designing next-generation products. The paper, “Reliably Erasing ...

The Ghosts of Your Files Haunt Old, Erased Hard Drives. Here’s How to Exorcise Them.

Before you junk your old computer or external solid state drive, here’s how to thoroughly wipe all your data, because it’s ...