• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 hours ago

    That’s not necessarily the case with SSDs. When trim is enabled, the OS will tell the SSD that the data has been deleted. The controller will then erase the blocks at some point so they will be ready for new data to be written.

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      2 hours ago

      IIRC TRIM commands just tell the SSD that data isn’t needed any more and it can erase that data when it gets around to it.

      The SSD might not have actually erased the trimmed data yet. Makes it even more important to turn it off ASAP and send it away to a data recovery specialist if it’s important data.