Letter Re: Is Your Flash Memory Data Really Erased?

James Wesley Rawles October 10, 2011 October 10, 2011

Hello James:
Take a look at Deb Shindler’s blog post linking to a PDF download about reliably erasing data from SSD drives. Here is just one sentence from the second paragraph of the PDF that really struck me. “Third, none of the existing hard drive-oriented techniques for individual file sanitization are effective on SSDs.” Thanks for all you do. – Joe K.

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James Wesley, Rawles (JWR) is Founder and Senior Editor of SurvivalBlog, the original prepping /survival blog for when the Schumer Hits The Fan (SHTF). He began SurvivalBlog in 2005. It now reaches more than 320,000 unique visitors weekly.
JWR is a journalist, technical writer, and novelist. His survivalist novel Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse, is a modern classic that reached #3 on the New York Times bestsellers list. Two of his other novels have also been best New York Times bestsellers.
Jim is the originator of the American Redoubt movement and a frequent talk show and podcast guest. He is also a retreat consultant specializing in off-grid living, rural relocation, and survival preparedness.

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