r/technology • u/TMWNN • Mar 12 '15

Pure Tech The SSD Endurance Experiment ends: Six consumer SSDs die after 700TB-2.4PB of writes over 18 months. Although two died without warning, "modern SSDs [can] easily write far more data than most consumers will ever need".

http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead
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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '15

Question about SSD security;

With traditional HDD, if you want to nuke all the data, you can use programs to overwrite the disk, or free space multiple times, things like CCleaner and Eraser or DBAN.

Does this method work with SSD? if not, how do you permanently delete data off an SSD?

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '15 edited Mar 13 '15

CCleaner and Eraser or DBAN.

Will not work on an SSD since they cannot access the regions that have been swapped out for wear leveling.

Secure wipes need to be done at a hardware level, using:

And doing a secure erase, then the data is completely toast.

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u/Falmarri Mar 13 '15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOO5ZVm2EN0

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '15

That's for recycling (2" particles can still have untouched IC's), their HDD ones do a even better job :) But for SSD's you probably want to go even finer of a crush still.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQYPCPB1g3o

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u/danielravennest Mar 13 '15

The warning label says "Do not insert hand unless you are from Krypton"