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		endian on Jan 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Paranoia and deletion: the wipe man page Does anyone know if any such FOSS works with SSDs and their wear-levelling of their writes?

tedunangst on Jan 15, 2011 [–]

wipe is rather unlikely to overwrite the bits on an SSD. Even with TRIM (which wipe won't use, btw), the disk will prefer using a blank sector to one it has to erase. Reading the currently unmapped spare sectors is probably something anyone with a solder gun can do.

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