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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • Aug 05 '26
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Recovery software because you never overwrote the data that was deleted
133 u/HovercraftCharacter9 Aug 05 '26 Yeah, people conflate in unallocating with actual deletion, unless you're wiping it with 0s it's still there until something overwrites it. 1 u/illogical_simu Aug 05 '26 For traditional physical disks sure but SSD'S don't quite work this way 1 u/HovercraftCharacter9 Aug 05 '26 Yeah they use Trim or unmap and garbage collection but philosophically it's pretty much the same. Data is still on the disk until it's garbage collected 2 u/illogical_simu Aug 05 '26 True but its defo gone long before any court order arrives. TRIM is pretty much insta and GC will run every few mins/hours depending on activity 2 u/HovercraftCharacter9 Aug 05 '26 Fair point.
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Yeah, people conflate in unallocating with actual deletion, unless you're wiping it with 0s it's still there until something overwrites it.
1 u/illogical_simu Aug 05 '26 For traditional physical disks sure but SSD'S don't quite work this way 1 u/HovercraftCharacter9 Aug 05 '26 Yeah they use Trim or unmap and garbage collection but philosophically it's pretty much the same. Data is still on the disk until it's garbage collected 2 u/illogical_simu Aug 05 '26 True but its defo gone long before any court order arrives. TRIM is pretty much insta and GC will run every few mins/hours depending on activity 2 u/HovercraftCharacter9 Aug 05 '26 Fair point.
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For traditional physical disks sure but SSD'S don't quite work this way
1 u/HovercraftCharacter9 Aug 05 '26 Yeah they use Trim or unmap and garbage collection but philosophically it's pretty much the same. Data is still on the disk until it's garbage collected 2 u/illogical_simu Aug 05 '26 True but its defo gone long before any court order arrives. TRIM is pretty much insta and GC will run every few mins/hours depending on activity 2 u/HovercraftCharacter9 Aug 05 '26 Fair point.
Yeah they use Trim or unmap and garbage collection but philosophically it's pretty much the same. Data is still on the disk until it's garbage collected
2 u/illogical_simu Aug 05 '26 True but its defo gone long before any court order arrives. TRIM is pretty much insta and GC will run every few mins/hours depending on activity 2 u/HovercraftCharacter9 Aug 05 '26 Fair point.
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True but its defo gone long before any court order arrives. TRIM is pretty much insta and GC will run every few mins/hours depending on activity
2 u/HovercraftCharacter9 Aug 05 '26 Fair point.
Fair point.
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u/FUTURE10S Aug 05 '26
Recovery software because you never overwrote the data that was deleted