Disk Drive Sanitization
How to safely remove data from various devices
Applies to all: Encryption!
The universal method for securely removing all data from a drive is to encrypt all the data in th...
Dumb but effective: overwrite data (HDD's and some SSD's)
For Spinning disk drives, and SSD's that don't support secure erase/sanitize commands, the only o...
SATA SSD's: ATA Secure Erase
MOST SATA-based SSD's support some type of secure-erase. This is a much faster and more effective...
NVME SSD's: NVME Secure Erase
ATA and NVME drives use different communication specs, and as such the secure erase/sanitize comm...