31 points · transpute · 4 days ago
peterbabic.devdigiown
SoftTalker
NegativeK
But that doesn't even overwrite the visible drive space; you can do a simple PoC to demonstrate that Windows won't get to all the mapped blocks. And that still hasn't gotten to the overprovisioned blocks and wear leveling issues that the article references.
You could use the BIOS or whatever CLI tool to tell the drive to chuck its encryption key, but are you sure that tool meets whatever compliance requirements you're beholden to? Are you sure the drive firmware does?
So they went with paying a company to shred the drives. All of them. It's disgustingly wasteful.
buckle8017
If you insist on erasing the data, overwrite the entire contents of the drive twice with random data.
Doing it twice will blow away any cached as well (probably).
e40
russfink