Need to overwrite lots data (talkin ≳100 GB) using some thing like Extirpater in hopes it all can’t be recovered . Hoping some one here will have knowledge whether this’s safe for me to do as it’s not really explained tꝏ well in provided link !

  • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 hours ago

    Bold of you to assume it’s overwritten rather than being unlinked and having the random data written to entirely different flash blocks.

    If you want to rely on “overwriting” data for security, you need deterministic storage; only CMR hard drives mostly qualify (leaving aside the question of bad-block remapping).