Comment on To what extent dœs mass-overwriting files with random data wear out NAND storage ?
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
If you want to destroy storage, whether it’s spinning platters or NAND SSD, the single fastest most effective way is with a hand drill. A few holes through the media will make it unrecoverable.
For an SSD, overwriting to wear out the media will take years of continuous writes and you will get slow degradation as blocks wear out, not a nice clean failure.
Physical destruction is the way to go.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Now if the drive contains personal data but you want to resell it, boot into the BIOS and see if there is a TRIM SSD / SECURELY DELETE SSD option. Doing a manufacturer’s “Trim” on the disk will delete it completely and securely.