Re:Hard drive, SSD puncher of physical media with 12 tons of...
by qual on Thursday July 04, 2024 @05:55PM
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Sure, if you don't need to meet any compliance standards and your threat model is pretty relaxed, this is likely okay.
But if your threat model is that relaxed, you can just encrypt the whole drive, toss the key, and then format the device. This would likely be quicker than doing 10x write passes.
As a note, write passes are really only good for HDDs due to wear-leveling algorithms in every SSD.
But if your threat model is that relaxed, you can just encrypt the whole drive, toss the key, and then format the device. This would likely be quicker than doing 10x write passes.
As a note, write passes are really only good for HDDs due to wear-leveling algorithms in every SSD.