This is worth a read: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/21/flash_drive_erasing_peril/
"... scientists have found that computer files stored on solid state drives are sometimes impossible to delete using traditional disk-erasure techniques. Even when the next-generation storage devices show that files have been deleted, as much as 75 percent of the data contained in them may still reside on the flash-based drives ..." The article has links to the paper being presented at the Usenix FAST 11 conference in California. Worth thinking about, not just netbooks, but those ubiquitous USB keys, too ... Theresa -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
