frankyboi ,

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

CyberDine , (edited )

NSA requires the use of a industrial shredder that can grind the components into pieces less than 2mm.

https://ameri-shred.com/portfolio-items/2mm-ssd-solid-state-drive-hammer-mills/

If you can't do that, you should incinerate the drive at over 700 degrees.

As far as wiping goes, a 3 pass overwrite alternating 0s and 1s is good enough as long as it's done over the entire drive, not just the partition.

BCWipe is good enough for this

frankyboi ,

Dalvik boot and nuke.

spez_ ,

You smash it in 100 different places

Bytemeister ,

Smash it to pieces, melt it down into a blob and drop it down a borehole at the nearest quarry

potentiallynotfelix ,

If it's really sensitive shit, you should beat the shit out of it with a sledgehammer and make sure you got all the nand modules(see diagram online), then throw parts of it into a large body of water, deeper the better

diskmaster23 ,

What about phones?

flux ,

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

TheAnonymouseJoker ,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

3 pass random data erase. If you are not going to use it again, a nice hammer.

bloodfart ,

For an ssd you’ll have faster and better results with veracrypt, delete the key then call the drives secure erase.

5220 was for media that actually gave the user real access to block level read and write. Nowadays even spinning media presents you with an abstraction.

nutsack ,

i know this isn't what is being asked, but disk level encryption is cool

captain_aggravated ,
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If it's really an issue where "if the data on this SSD falls into the wrong hands, lives will be ruined" sort of thing, my favorite data security tool for this job is a bench grinder. Difficult to put the data back together when the flash chips are powder scattered throughout 14 different shop surfaces and at least two lungs.

SidewaysHighways ,

Be careful with lung butter though. Been betrayed before

Adalast ,

I prefer thermite. Recover my data from a messy contaminated slag heap.

bloodfart ,

Call the devices secure erase functionality.

here’s how to do it to sata and pata devices

I don’t do some of the checking and testing in that article, I just do —security-erase-enhanced and unless it fails it’s fine.

You could also encrypt the contents and delete the key.

TedZanzibar ,

This is the correct answer. Due to wear levelling, a traditional drive wipe program isn't going to work reliably, whereas most (all?) SSDs have some sort of secure erase function.

It's been a while since I read up on it but I think it works due to the drive encrypting everything that's written to it, though you wouldn't know it's happening. When you call the secure erase function it just forgets the key and cycles in a new one, rendering everything previously written to it irrecoverable. The bonus is that it's an incredibly quick operation.

Failing that, smash it to bits.

Dark_Arc ,
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And if you're hiding from a nation state ... don't trust that, smash it to bits and dispose of them at different trash collection locations 🙂

PM_Your_Nudes_Please ,

Are you considering using the drive afterwards? Because “toss it in a microwave for like 5 minutes” is always a valid answer if you’re not worried about reusing it.

Dark_Arc ,
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

Presumably there's a risk of damaging the microwave?

arin ,

If you want to cook with it yeah, but if it's a junk toy then it's practically indestructible

Brkdncr ,

So many people here responding with outdated misinformation.

KISSmyOSFeddit ,

Whoever might need, for whatever reason, to write on a parchment sheet which had already been written, should take some milk and should put the parchment in it for one night’s time. As soon as it is taken out, it should be strewn with flour in order that it not be wrinkled after it begins to dry, and so as to be kept under pressure until it dries out. After it is done, the parchment will regain its former quality, shining and lucid, by means of pumice stone and chalk.

Aussiemandeus ,
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Thank you I've been reading comments all day to get the right information

MNByChoice ,

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.

HowMany ,

Smash them with a hammer until they're sand.

Fosheze ,

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

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