Data recovery (was: Re: SETI at home (ca. 2000) servers heading to salvage)

[Jonathan Chapman]

> SSD's are a different beast, if you're going to put data
> on them that you do not want recovered I would recommend encrypting the
> drive before using it, then when done delete/destroy the key. That
> should turn your drive into a useless (but format-able) chunk of silicon.

That's our take on it. SSDs get FDE or they don't leave. Secure Erase is nice for blowing away old formatting/partitioning, but we're not trusting it on sensitive customer data.

Thanks,
Jonathan