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Re:Why SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Do... by Hello71 on Thursday June 19, 2014 @06:58PM (#7918745)
> > A free-space wipe on an SSD can't guarantee that reserved or remapped blocks get erased. > > I think most controllers implement a secure erase feature that guarantees the data have been erased from NAND.

yes, ata secure erase, which guarantees erasure of the entire drive (excluding vendor specific areas)

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