It's 2024, and you have: nvme format -s1 /dev/nvme0n1 to use secure erase on your NVMe drives, with similar commands available under hdparm for SATA driv

It's 2024, and you have: nvme format -s1 /dev/nvme0n1 to use secure erase on your NVMe drives, with similar commands available under hdparm for SATA drives: https://grok.lsu.edu/Article.aspx?articleid=16716 https://grok.lsu.edu/Article.aspx?articleid=16716 The "DoD style" erase commands no longer provide adequate security for highly virtualized I/O devices like SSDs where blocks may be remapped as spares out of the directly accessible range and thus skipped by the pass. In fact, the DoD itself stipulates only physical destruction of hard drives is acceptable, and many bases have secure warehouses where old drives are stocked awaiting destruction.