Report: Current SSD 'Secure Erase' Methods Don't Work

[Tharic-Nar]

Last spring, we posted an article that took a look at data recovery on SSDs; essentially, the difficulty of. Thanks to TRIM, once a file is deleted on an SSD, it's difficult to recover, and in our tests, common recovery applications simply didn't work. In a recent report, though, techies at the University of California have have found that data is recoverable, and that even "secure erase" programs might not work.

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[Kougar]

Probably why the new SF-2200 controller comes with built-in AES 256-bit encryption.

Interesting article that looks at some viable means to wipe a drive: http://www.hackinthebox.net/misc/can-data-stored-on-an-ssd-be-secured.html