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

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    You can’t fill the drive. The drive decides when to use its buffered free storage blocks. It’s at the hardware level and only the Secure Erase command will clear it.

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      7 months ago

      Right, I read some more of the comments and realized that’s what some of the “unreported space” is used for. Makes sense, thanks!

    • _edge@discuss.tchncs.de
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      7 months ago

      You fill up the usable space. Or the visible space. No one will disamble the device and read from the raw storage.