Friday, February 18, 2011

Sanitazing SSD

Sanitizing data from storage media is a critical component of data management, especially for governments and the enterprise. Sanitization is well-understood for traditional magnetic storage, such as hard drives and tapes. Newer Solid State Disks (SSDs), however, have a much different internal architecture, so it is unclear whether what has worked on magnetic media will work on SSDs as well.Wiping HD up to 35 times will help in residual magnetism for older hard disks, but what to do with SSD? The sanitation problem is quite different in that case.

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