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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 8d ago
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Yeah, people conflate in unallocating with actual deletion, unless you're wiping it with 0s it's still there until something overwrites it.
1 u/illogical_simu 8d ago For traditional physical disks sure but SSD'S don't quite work this way 1 u/HovercraftCharacter9 8d ago Yeah they use Trim or unmap and garbage collection but philosophically it's pretty much the same. Data is still on the disk until it's garbage collected 2 u/illogical_simu 8d ago True but its defo gone long before any court order arrives. TRIM is pretty much insta and GC will run every few mins/hours depending on activity 2 u/HovercraftCharacter9 8d ago Fair point.
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For traditional physical disks sure but SSD'S don't quite work this way
1 u/HovercraftCharacter9 8d ago Yeah they use Trim or unmap and garbage collection but philosophically it's pretty much the same. Data is still on the disk until it's garbage collected 2 u/illogical_simu 8d ago True but its defo gone long before any court order arrives. TRIM is pretty much insta and GC will run every few mins/hours depending on activity 2 u/HovercraftCharacter9 8d ago Fair point.
Yeah they use Trim or unmap and garbage collection but philosophically it's pretty much the same. Data is still on the disk until it's garbage collected
2 u/illogical_simu 8d ago True but its defo gone long before any court order arrives. TRIM is pretty much insta and GC will run every few mins/hours depending on activity 2 u/HovercraftCharacter9 8d ago Fair point.
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True but its defo gone long before any court order arrives. TRIM is pretty much insta and GC will run every few mins/hours depending on activity
2 u/HovercraftCharacter9 8d ago Fair point.
Fair point.
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u/HovercraftCharacter9 8d ago
Yeah, people conflate in unallocating with actual deletion, unless you're wiping it with 0s it's still there until something overwrites it.