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Solid State Disk, a generic term for computer storage devices that have no moving parts and do not involve a "hard disk". A hard disk, in contrast, is a device incorporating a spinning platter or platters that store information magnetically.
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How to securely erase an arbitrary SATA drive, utilizing the drive firmware to do so?
There are three ways of dealing with it:
OS X provides good userland access to any USB device, so if one wished to bundle hdparm with a USB storage driver, it'd be possible to use hdparm on USB-conn …
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How to securely erase an arbitrary SATA drive, utilizing the drive firmware to do so?
The problem with using Disk Utility or dd if=/dev/zero to erase a disk is that:
It applies unnecessary wear to SSD drives.
It sends the drive's capacity worth of zeroes over the drive's interface. …