Comment on How is it possible for the IT experts to recover data that was erased from a hard drive when the storage of said hard drive appears empty?

pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

If I tell you all the boxes in a warehouse are empty, that doesn’t mean they are. It just means I think they are. You can go and check them manually to see if they’re actually empty or if I was lying or forgot there was stuff in them. The metaphor breaks down a little bit here but if you look at the boxes closely, the ones with dust on top were probably empty for a long time and the ones without were probably emptied recently.

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