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The storage world can be a confusing place, particularly for those trying to learn the basics….
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I’m looking for an easy way to securely wipe the SSD of my Ubuntu machine. As I’m using a fairly new Dell XPS 13 and am quite a noob with Ubuntu I don’t want to use any fancy commands, that might brick my machine.
This is why I thought I c… Continue reading If I re-install an encrypted version of Ubuntu on my laptop and fill my entire SSD up with a large .txt file, does this securely wipe the SSD?
I am looking into M.2 docking stations such as the Maiwo K3016S as shown below.
Is it possible to use such docking stations optionally in combination with a USB- or software write-blocker, in order to make forensic images of (Bitlocker en… Continue reading Can M.2 docking stations be used to make forensic images of (Bitlocker encrypted) M.2 disks?
Many users are slowly migrating from using HDDs to SSDs, the reason is simple […]
This…
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Assuming a given SSD supports TRIM, and is on a physical bus that supports sending that command, and the connected computer is running an OS that is aware of TRIM:
If the drive is formatted, or has had its files erased, will the data be un… Continue reading Data recovery from TRIMmed SSDs
This article on forensicfocus.com says the following about Deterministic Read After TRIM (emphasis mine):
As a result, the data returned by SSD drives supporting DRAT as opposed to DZAT can be all zeroes or other words of data, or it coul… Continue reading What’s the DRAT word of my SSD?
This article on thomas-krenn.com states:
Because an ATA trim will be performed by NTFS with Windows 7 or when formatting using Ext4 from mke2fs 1.41.10 or XFS from xfsprogs 3.1.0, the secure erase procedure is no longer necessary […].
… Continue reading Does formatting an SSD securely delete all data?
I have two SSDs in my laptop. one is SATA 500GB and the other is M.2 SATA 250 GB. I used the following steps for both to securly erase them so that I can sell the laptop:
unfreeze the drives:
sudo systemctl suspend
Set a User Password: h… Continue reading ATA Secure Erase is too fast
I am currently looking out for a disk / file-system encryption solution, on Linux, which would not require a password at every reboot instance.
While this will not prevent data theft if the entire system is snitched, it should at least en… Continue reading Disk / Volume encryption without password prompt at boot [migrated]
There was quite a lot of talk two years ago about vulnerabilities discovered in hardware encryption on SSDs that allowed attackers to bypass the encryption and get to the data on them. I can find very little recent discussion on this, exce… Continue reading How safe is hardware encryption on newer SSDs? [closed]