A solid-state drive (SSD, also known as a solid-state disk although it contains neither an actual disk nor a drive motor to spin a disk) is a solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies as memory to store data persistently.
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SSD Erasure verification
I was hoping someone would be able to give some advise on what would be the best way to verify that an SSD has been erased completely.
We are currently using Blancco v5 and even though it says it has been successful is there a way to manually check…
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OPAL SSD full-disk encryption and key generation
So modern solid-state drives often support OPAL standard for full-disk encryption. If I understand correctly, it uses a user password to encrypt a key which is then in turn used to encrypt content of the drive. But my question is how is this…
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If I re-install an encrypted version of Ubuntu on my laptop and fill my entire SSD up with a large .txt file, does this securely wipe the SSD?
I'm looking for an easy way to securely wipe the SSD of my Ubuntu machine. As I'm using a fairly new Dell XPS 13 and am quite a noob with Ubuntu I don't want to use any fancy commands, that might brick my machine.
This is why I thought I could just…
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Can you infect a SSD firmware with malware?
Are the updates signed? Or can anyone make a piece of software to do this?
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ATA Enhanced Secure Erase - why is everything 0?
I was erasing a SSD with ATA secure erase and thought about the following:
When enhanced secure erase is performed on a SSD or NVMe which supports this operation, the master key which is used to encrypt all data is erased and newly generated, so…
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