Comment on Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 day agoEven local files still “exist” when you delete them. Usually the filesystem just marks those blocks as reusable since overwriting the data would take a lot longer.
Burninator05@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Really with an SSD this makes extra sense. Not only would over writing the data immediately take some time but would also use up the limited write cycles faster.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Even with spinning disks all that extra write traffic isn’t exactly great.
Plus scrubbing floppies takes forever