On 2025-07-12, Andy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 03:38:11PM +0200, Me wrote: >> On 2025-07-12 15:19, [email protected] 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 >
