Hi, Am 26. Januar schrieb Michael Holstein:
> No, wear-leveling (done at the memory controller level) will dynamically > re-map addresses on the actual flash chip to ensure a relatively > consistent number of write cycles across the entire drive. > > The only way to completely "wipe" a flash disk is with a hammer. Yes, but what if I overwrite the device with random data from the very first to the very last byte? Suppose the size of the device hasn't decreased I'd think that wear-levelling has no chance to spare blocks in this case. kind regards Stefan -- make -it ./work GnuPG-Key: B96CF8D2 <[email protected]> Fingerprint: D8AC D5E7 6865 19B1 385F 8850 2AB7 6A82 B96C F8D2 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
