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Horsemen of the disk-drive apocalypse will ride upon 256TB SSDs

phuzz Silver badge

There is an ATA command to securely erase the entire disk in one go.

Provided the manufacturer has implemented it correctly, it will wipe every single block in the SSD (or if it uses encryption, it'll erase the key).

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