Re: SDD partitioning and allocations
On 2025-07-12, Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 03:38:11PM +0200, Me wrote:
>> On 2025-07-12 15:19, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> > Why do you recommend that? Are you assuming the SSDs songbird got are
>> > used, or do you recommend that even for new SSDs -- if so, why?
>> Not the OP, but you never know what's on the disks. It wouldn't be the first
>> time new disks contain unwanted "presents" straight from the factory.
>
> But for brand new devices I don't care what was on it before.
>
> You can construct a hypothetical situation where:
>
> 1. I buy a new storage device but am unwittingly given a refurb one
> (that has had its diagnostic attributes erased to maintain the
> illusion that it is new).
> 2. For some reason law enforcement seize my computer, scan the storage
> and find something illegal that was on it already in unused space.
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/12/5928?utm_source=chatgpt.com
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/181241a/amazon_sold_me_a_drive_it_came_with_data_on_it/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
https://indiandefencereview.com/a-man-bought-a-new-hard-drive-but-upon-plugging-it-in-he-discovered-800gb-of-files-worth-thousands/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
> I personally don't regard that a possibility worth worrying about, but
> okay for anyone that does, yes they would want to secure erase their
> storage. For NVMe they would want to be sure to select Secure Erase
> Setting 1 or 2.
>
> https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/nvme-cli/nvme-format.1.en.html
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
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