a) why the fuck would they go to that effort for a filthy commoner like yourself, and b) what are the chances that 0.01% of recoverable data contains anything useful!?!
Nobody is gonna bother doing advanced forensics on 2nd hand storage, digging into megabytes of reallocated sectors on the off chance they to find something financially exploitable. That’s a level of paranoia no data supports.
My example applies to storage devices which don’t default to encryption (most non-OS external storage). It’s analogous to changing your existing encrypted disks password to a random-ass unrecoverable throwaway.
When we’re talking SSDs, we’re not talking a fee megabytes of relocated sectors. We’re talking numbers between 4½-560GB of spare capacity, almost guaranteed to be used, especially if you start filling up the drive.
If you’re assuming nobody is going to dig through the SSD, save yourself some time and issue a secure erase/crypto erase command and let the firmware figure it out. It’s faster and more reliable. If you have TRIM enabled (should be on by default on most operating systems), you may even be able to get away with simply clearing the recycling bin.
Nobody is gonna bother doing advanced forensics on 2nd hand storage, digging into megabytes of reallocated sectors on the off chance they to find something financially exploitable. That’s a level of paranoia no data supports.
My example applies to storage devices which don’t default to encryption (most non-OS external storage). It’s analogous to changing your existing encrypted disks password to a random-ass unrecoverable throwaway.
When we’re talking SSDs, we’re not talking a fee megabytes of relocated sectors. We’re talking numbers between 4½-560GB of spare capacity, almost guaranteed to be used, especially if you start filling up the drive.
If you’re assuming nobody is going to dig through the SSD, save yourself some time and issue a secure erase/crypto erase command and let the firmware figure it out. It’s faster and more reliable. If you have TRIM enabled (should be on by default on most operating systems), you may even be able to get away with simply clearing the recycling bin.