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Dwedityesterday at 6:25 PM0 repliesview on HN

Shred isn't very useful on SSDs in general. Because of TRIM, deleting a file instantly makes the sectors read back as 00 bytes. (Yes the data is technically still on the flash chips scattered across memory blocks without any mapping telling you where each piece of the data is, but is not readable through normal drive commands)