Or, you know, you could just get a USB adapter for it and use it as a big flash drive.
Why not just burn it?
Break it over your knee and toss it in the trash like a basketball.
What the fuck :v: why would you destroy a working ssd, if you don't need it just sell it for cheap like any sane person?
[QUOTE=damnatus;51970165]What the fuck :v: why would you destroy a working ssd, if you don't need it just sell it for cheap like any sane person?[/QUOTE]
because someone might get my old data! i have super important shit like memes on my ssd
[QUOTE=damnatus;51970165]What the fuck :v: why would you destroy a working ssd, if you don't need it just sell it for cheap like any sane person?[/QUOTE]
"I'm concerned about my privacy and just smart enough to know that you can recover deleted files from hard drives/SSDs but too fucking stupid/lazy to learn/know how to properly wipe a drive!"
Basically the only excuse really.
what if the ssd died i'd say thats a good excuse for disposing of one?
[QUOTE=Fox Powers;51971126]what if the ssd died i'd say thats a good excuse for disposing of one?[/QUOTE]
If I had one die, I'd just hollow it out and turn it into container for something like business cards
[QUOTE=F.X Clampazzo;51971097]"I'm concerned about my privacy and just smart enough to know that you can recover deleted files from hard drives/SSDs but too fucking stupid/lazy to learn/know how to properly wipe a drive!"
Basically the only excuse really.[/QUOTE]
I've done this before for disposing of confidential doctor/patient info for family who run a practice. Yeah, I know tons of methods for secure deletion, but it's far simpler, quicker, and easier to just physically destroy the drive than booting up the program and letting it run overnight. Especially when nobody is going to be using the drive again.
Physically destroying the drive often isn't enough in a good number of cases though if you're really that big about your privacy to the level that you're doing as such to prevent people from being able to see your shitty meme/porn folder on an old hdd, like either tinfoil hat or classified government level paranoia I suppose. If the data is valuable or important enough, there's a good chance someone has devised a method to recover it from a "physically destroyed" drive. It's sorta like disposing of sensitive paper documents. Yeah you shredded it and/or burned it, but it can still be reconstructed to various degrees depending on how well you destroy it. Guidelines for some lines of work specify wiping it before physically destroying it for a reason. Though for your average doctor's practice, average person or just about anything that isn't extremely sensitive yeah wiping the drives is overkill because patient files for a family doctor aren't valuable or important enough to spend thousands to forensically reconstruct to probably just about everyone.
If forensic reconstruction is a serious consideration for you, then you have bigger concerns such as the salary of the armed guards that are protecting you 24/7, and the security level of the vault you place the computer in when not in use.
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;51971661]If forensic reconstruction is a serious consideration for you, then you have bigger concerns such as the salary of the armed guards that are protecting you 24/7, and the security level of the vault you place the computer in when not in use.[/QUOTE]
Yeah or you're legit tinfoil hat level of paranoid.
Idk, I'm just saying that from the standpoint of it making sense to worry about your old drives, wiping the drive and selling it is a zero effort thing and makes sense because it's still in circulation and shit. If you're worried enough about your privacy that you're willing to physically destroy the drive before tossing it then you're basically already wasting your time for no monetary gain since it'll probably just end up in a landfill and the weather will take care of it anyway. Especially because just breaking a pin or two from the thing is more than enough to classify it as beyond usable for the average dumpster diving hobo / techie kid. Now if you're someone who likes to go out shooting and you're taking some old hard drives as targets, that's just a smart use of old resources and has the handy added benefit of fucking the drives up.
If you're not running a business that has sensitive information, government, or you're a criminal with CP on your drives or some shit then there's only tinfoil paranoid reasons to worry about someone getting your drives and recovering files.
If you're desperate to permanently destroy an SSD just Widlarize it.
Wiping an SSD is very quick, you need software capable of issuing the Secure Erase command, which wipes all memory in a matter of seconds. This works for SATA SSD's, I have not found a method for NVMe drives which use a different communication standard, perhaps they have something analogous.
Software I have used for this was Parted Magic, a very handy bootable suite. The only caveat is you don't know if the drive properly implements the Secure Erase command, some drives had recoverable data after a few wipes, which shouldn't be possible even after one wipe. There is another method of Secure Erase that changes the drive's built in encryption key, rendering any data unusable, however I am unfamiliar with implementing that method. Parted Magic can do it, I think.
Regular HDD's can also be issued the Secure Erase command, however it takes a long time depending on drive speed and size.
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