A 5-LB sledge should do the job admirably.
> On Jan 29, 2015, at 6:28, "Klaus Hartnegg" <hartn...@uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>
>> Am 29.01.2015 um 14:54 schrieb Richard Stovall:
>> Another thread mentioned the difficulty of guaranteeing the secure erasure
>> of data from SSDs.
>>
>> I recently had to return a personal laptop for replacement and could not
>> find a method for securely erasing its SSD. Googling around for answers, I
>> came upon the idea of encrypting the entire drive as one way of virtually
>> guaranteeing that data could not be recovered. That made sense to me, and
>> some before and after analysis with Winhex seemed to support it as a viable
>> solution for my purposes.
>
> SSDs have a lot of spare sectors, and remap sectors which have been in use
> very often. You cannot access those sectors any more through normal software,
> and they keep their previous contents. To be on the safe side you must
> install encryption software before ever writing any of your data.
>
> Or check if the manufacturer offers a toolbox software for his SSDs. Some
> include a full erase function. Let's hope that this still works when your
> device needs repair, and that this function really does what it should.
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