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"right after he researched on Google how to wipe a hard drive" I find it difficult to believe that Carmack needs to google how to wipe a hard drive ...
by rsync 10y ago
"right after he researched on Google how to wipe a hard drive"
I find it difficult to believe that Carmack needs to google how to wipe a hard drive ...
- fulafel 10y agoThe ATA security erase implementations in SSDs frequently lie, and few people know off the top of their heads what tools/procedure use to get to that command in the first place. Nobody knows how to issue this command or knows if this command works on their drive off the top of their heads. (OTOH I have researched this issue a few times a year despite rarely personally applying the information, so this Google trail is hardly evidence about anything)
- rsync 10y ago"Nobody knows how to issue this command or knows if this command works on their drive off the top of their heads." Sure they do. You overwrite the drive with a known large file and then check the checksum of it. It doesn't matter what kind of mumbo-jumbo the SSD is doing - it doesn't have phantom-double-capacity hiding in there ... if the (drive sized file) you wrote checksums out, you're done. And if you're paranoid, do it a few times with different (drive-sized-files). Quick and easy and faster than googling anything.
- fulafel 10y agoNo. See eg. https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/fast11/tech/full_papers/Wei.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/fast11/tech/full_papers...
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