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Please see my post debunking everything about DigitalOcean's need to spend even one minute scrubbing user data. The fact that they are using SSDs makes it extra
by AaronFriel 13y ago
Please see my post debunking everything about DigitalOcean's need to spend even one minute scrubbing user data. The fact that they are using SSDs makes it extraordinarily cheap for them to scrub customer data using the TRIM command (on Linux: by sending the BLKDISCARD IO command). With that, they can logically zero hundreds of gigabytes of customer data within seconds.
- jlawer 13y agoI agree that there are ways to implement this. And perhaps they should (mind you from experience not all SSDs do this properly). I simple can't blame them for delivering what they say they are going to give me, even if they could have built their infrastructure better.
- mikeash 13y agoWhere do they say that they will give all of your data to the next customer to occupy your spot if you don't use this option? I have looked at the UI and the API docs and it simply is not there. The scrub option says that it writes zeroes to your partition, but it says nothing about giving all your data away if you don't do that.
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