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I’m struggling with a problem: the Windows suddenly stopped working when I connected the HDD with rack on my laptop. I’ve tried almost everything, so later on I have discovered after re-installing the HDD, and place the SSD in the rack tha… Continue reading SSD not working anymore and windows not opening [migrated]
My organization has upgraded a few printers and decommissioned the internal SSD hard drives by passing the memory chips through a band saw, cutting each chip into halves, and in some cases tearing whole sections loose from the greenboard.
… Continue reading What degree of physical destruction is sufficient to ensure an SSD is not readable?
Before understanding Bad Sectors and how to repair bad sectors, you should know about sectors and…
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Continue reading Bad Sectors on HDD and SSD: Introduction and Repairing
SSDs seem to be notoriously tricky to properly erase (see for example this question and answers here). An easier and potentially safer solution could be to physically destroy the SSD device.
I am looking for a way to physically destroy an… Continue reading How to physically destroy an SSD at home?
There’s no clear set of commands available that will securely erase the data blocks on SSD from the Linux command line.
I am familiar with hdparm commands but it seems they erase the mapping table but not too sure if they erase the data.
… Continue reading How do I erase data blocks on a SSD using Linux commands?
Most of the consumers have a laptop or a desktop computer, but they have no idea what kind of…
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Continue reading How to check what Hard Drive you have on Windows 10
If you use a SSD, with an overprovisioning partition created with the manfacturer’s tool, and use BitLocker to crypt the remaining drive partition you really use everyday, is there a way to get part of your datas through the overprovisioni… Continue reading SSD : Bitlocker and overprovisioning
I would like to wipe ALL free space on my SSD which Windows 10 is installed on, so that no previously deleted file can be recovered. How can I achieve this?
Continue reading How to securely erase the free space on an SSD in windows 10?
Expiration dates for computer drives? That’s what a line of HP solid-state drives are facing as the variable for their uptime counter is running out. When it does, the drive “expires” and, well, no more data storage for you!
There are a series of stages in the evolution of a …read more
Continue reading Patch, Or Your Solid State Drives Roll Over And Die
I was thinking of copying all of the data on my SSD (or at least the non-operating system partitions) once a year for data retention. However, I was wondering if the chance of bits being copied wrong (by a read or write error… Continue reading Will copying an SSD once a year be beneficial or detrimental? [closed]