I am giving away a shitty 128GB SSD, which was used with LUKS 2 for most of it's lifetime. As far as I know, it's good practice to secure-erase it, but I'm too lazy to reinstall the OS on it (I already did it once). Is it really needed?

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[–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

Wait, HDDs retain data after deletion? I thought only SSDs did that.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    nope its just how the file system works, same on hdd. in fact recovery programs like testdisk/recuva usually work better on hdds because ssds have trim and garbage collection running periodically

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