Re: [Fed-Talk] Secure erase of SSD drives?
Re: [Fed-Talk] Secure erase of SSD drives?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Secure erase of SSD drives?
- From: "Dr. Brad Cox" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:20:34 -0400
Ran into that with a personal hard drive that needed warranty replacement. Apple INSISTED that I return the old drive undamaged or pay an exorbitant fee. Something about needing to monitor failure causes before tossing in a dumpster. A secure one they claimed ;)
Resolved that (to my satisfaction; probably not govt's) with a honking big drive erase magnet. Apple never objected. My next choice would be a hammer, tree chipper or the like.
Apple's not your friend in such cases.
On Mar 19, 2013, at 10:03 AM, "Dyson, Jennifer L CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 53521" <email@hidden> wrote:
> We have a Mac SSD drive that will be put in for a warranty claim, but
> when we went to do the secure DoD erase from Disk Utility, lo and
> behold...it was greyed out. Further googling on the topic revealed that
> there appears to be no secure way to wipe SSD drives...Seems to be a way
> to recover data no matter what...and even if you do some of the
> overwrite methods, you will degrade the performance terribly (not a big
> deal in this case since we are sending it back to the manufacturer)
> What?!?!?!? How did I miss this little tidbit of information! I then
> saw that the only possible way would be to use something specifically
> from the hardware manufacturer (in this case it was Samsung...and I see
> no way to use their tool on the MAC) Does anyone have any suggestions?
> What would be the DoD approved method? Haha...probably destruction
> only! Although I am worried about this for home computers as well....
>
> https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3191
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> /Jen
> Jennifer Dyson
> SSC-PACIFIC Code 53521
> email@hidden
> DCO Jabber - jennifer.dyson
>
> "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food" - Hippocrates
>
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