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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 9:23 am
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Peetah
 
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Originally Posted by whirledtraveler
I wonder whether solid state drives leave an afterimage?
Some of them are based on flash technology... so I'd expect the contents to be present after they're erased. Since they're faster than regular hard drives, wiping them won't be as much of a pain. Also, they don't have the same properties as magentic hard drives, so a single pseudorandom data write should be sufficient to "scramble" the contents of empty space.
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