Sure, but very few business tools are doing that, they are playing the old Gutmann game which he himself has walked away from as not reliable anymore. Filling u

Sure, but very few business tools are doing that, they are playing the old Gutmann game which he himself has walked away from as not reliable anymore. Filling up the drive is certainly getting you somewhere compared to some of the snake-oil out there. Drives are only getting bigger though and rarely filled up, done some of this stuff in my time and if cost is no barrier then you'd be surprised how much can be reclaimed. Degauss and destroy is the only real method we have now and that's probably not changing in future. >but are manufacturers really doing that and are not mentioning it in their marketing materials SSD manufacturers have been caught out repeatedly with their in-built deletion API claims. Recovery of a significant % of files is possible nearly always without tampering having occurred.