Nothing works with ssds. Data is permanently stored on ssds with no way to completely irradicate it all. That why ssds reccomended disposal is to shred to a specific particle size or to burn.
I get what you’re saying but OP said they wanted to donate the PC. If you’re got enough time will, time, and money, you’ll get the data off the drive. That’s why I don’t recommend including the drive at all.
Instead, I recommend that they simply remove the drive before donating it. That way, there is no possibility the person who gets the donated pc will get a hold of the drive or the data on it.
Whenever I get a pc from a thrift store or whatever, I always remove and destroy the hard disk if it has one before I even power it on.
When I donated my last computer to a PC shop they asked me to remove the drive first before they would take it. I could always use the drive after formatting for a backup drive. Presuming you have already moved the old data to your new hard drive.
Yes it does, unless something has changed in the last few years? It definitely still lets you select it, and wipes the data. Are you saying it’s recoverable?
DBAN used to be the way to go, but I haven’t used it for sometime.
https://dban.org/
It doesn’t work with SSDs :(
for SSDs i think its called ABAN or something?
:(
Nothing works with ssds. Data is permanently stored on ssds with no way to completely irradicate it all. That why ssds reccomended disposal is to shred to a specific particle size or to burn.
I get what you’re saying but OP said they wanted to donate the PC. If you’re got enough time will, time, and money, you’ll get the data off the drive. That’s why I don’t recommend including the drive at all.
Instead, I recommend that they simply remove the drive before donating it. That way, there is no possibility the person who gets the donated pc will get a hold of the drive or the data on it.
Whenever I get a pc from a thrift store or whatever, I always remove and destroy the hard disk if it has one before I even power it on.
When I donated my last computer to a PC shop they asked me to remove the drive first before they would take it. I could always use the drive after formatting for a backup drive. Presuming you have already moved the old data to your new hard drive.
What data are you worried about being recovered? Why would anyone care to recover it? What’s the absolute maximum damage said data could do?
I can say for me the answer would be.
Yes it does, unless something has changed in the last few years? It definitely still lets you select it, and wipes the data. Are you saying it’s recoverable?
Yes. This universities website gave a good high-level overview of why. Look under Hard Drives vs SSDs