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I understand traditional methods don’t work with modern SSD, anyone knows any good way to do it?

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[–] diskmaster23@lemmy.one 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] flux@lemmyis.fun 3 points 7 months ago

Bench grinder, sledgehammer, and thermite all work on phones too!

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago
[–] frankyboi@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Install all your steam library to full your SSD. Should do the job. Empty the disk, rinse and repeat a few times.

[–] HowMany@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Smash them with a hammer until they're sand.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago
[–] Fosheze@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Crack it open and run s drill through the center of each flash chip.

[–] spez_@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

You smash it in 100 different places

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social -1 points 7 months ago

If it is a large concern, then encryption will help. There are even drives with built-in encryption exactly for this purpose.

Otherwise, will with non-repeated data. Repeat 9 times. (A heuristic, based on something I read 10 years ago.)

Do not use repeated digits. Those are optimized out.

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