• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    Well, the storage device should handle that then. And modern NVMEs do. Self-encrypted drives are used to hide deleted information from an attacker that desolders the storage chips.

    Edit: there are NVMEs that dont use self encryption, BUT they should still recognize a deleted sector.

    • Natanael
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      1 month ago

      Deletion commands are unfortunately not very reliable on many SSDs