> I reformatted to a linear log filesystem ... I'm sure it was shuffling all the old data around as well. I’d assume for these you should follow the same advic

> I reformatted to a linear log filesystem ... I'm sure it was shuffling all the old data around as well. I’d assume for these you should follow the same advice as SSDs, and issue the ATA Secure Erase command to have the drive wipe itself (or as is typically the case now, just it’s internal state and encryption keys): https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase