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Does Secure Empty Trash work on Mac w SSD?
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Mar 15, 20262857 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Given that an SSD does wear leveling, does the Secure Empty Trash on the menu in MacOSX really work? Is something special being done force overwrites to the same physical block of flash and bypass the wear leveling algorithms built into the SSD? (related QA on SO)
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SSD wear levelling poses a prickly problem for secure deletion. Wear levelling is a low level algorithm working in the drive that randomises where data is written. This happens independent of the OS. By design, wear levelling spreads out multiple wr…
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