On 29/09/2020 11:43, Roger Hayter wrote:
On 29 Sep 2020 at 11:31:03 BST, "R D S" wrote:

On 29/09/2020 11:26, Martin Brown wrote:

It won't run anything like as fast over USB though.

I just want to see what's on it, and potentially format it and stick it
back in for a better price.

I don't know if you can ever tell what has been left intact on a formatted
SSD, but it would probably require specialist hardware to extract so it
probably doesn't matter unless it is very secret.

+1. the wear levelling algo means that neither reformatting or writing
to it will erase all the data, conversely any write will either erase a
whole block, or simply add to empty space.

In short just delete files and stop worrying, or physically destroy it.


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