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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I understand traditional methods don’t work with modern SSD, anyone knows any good way to do it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What about phones?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Bench grinder, sledgehammer, and thermite all work on phones too!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

With fire

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Install all your steam library to full your SSD. Should do the job. Empty the disk, rinse and repeat a few times.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Smash them with a hammer until they're sand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Microwave

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Crack it open and run s drill through the center of each flash chip.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

If it is a large concern, then encryption will help. There are even drives with built-in encryption exactly for this purpose.

Otherwise, will with non-repeated data. Repeat 9 times. (A heuristic, based on something I read 10 years ago.)

Do not use repeated digits. Those are optimized out.