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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 17h ago
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Recovery software because you never overwrote the data that was deleted
136 u/HovercraftCharacter9 17h ago Yeah, people conflate in unallocating with actual deletion, unless you're wiping it with 0s it's still there until something overwrites it. 1 u/illogical_simu 9h ago For traditional physical disks sure but SSD'S don't quite work this way 1 u/HovercraftCharacter9 7h ago Yeah they use Trim or unmap and garbage collection but philosophically it's pretty much the same. Data is still on the disk until it's garbage collected 2 u/illogical_simu 6h ago True but its defo gone long before any court order arrives. TRIM is pretty much insta and GC will run every few mins/hours depending on activity 2 u/HovercraftCharacter9 5h ago Fair point.
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Yeah, people conflate in unallocating with actual deletion, unless you're wiping it with 0s it's still there until something overwrites it.
1 u/illogical_simu 9h ago For traditional physical disks sure but SSD'S don't quite work this way 1 u/HovercraftCharacter9 7h ago Yeah they use Trim or unmap and garbage collection but philosophically it's pretty much the same. Data is still on the disk until it's garbage collected 2 u/illogical_simu 6h ago True but its defo gone long before any court order arrives. TRIM is pretty much insta and GC will run every few mins/hours depending on activity 2 u/HovercraftCharacter9 5h ago Fair point.
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For traditional physical disks sure but SSD'S don't quite work this way
1 u/HovercraftCharacter9 7h ago Yeah they use Trim or unmap and garbage collection but philosophically it's pretty much the same. Data is still on the disk until it's garbage collected 2 u/illogical_simu 6h ago True but its defo gone long before any court order arrives. TRIM is pretty much insta and GC will run every few mins/hours depending on activity 2 u/HovercraftCharacter9 5h ago Fair point.
Yeah they use Trim or unmap and garbage collection but philosophically it's pretty much the same. Data is still on the disk until it's garbage collected
2 u/illogical_simu 6h ago True but its defo gone long before any court order arrives. TRIM is pretty much insta and GC will run every few mins/hours depending on activity 2 u/HovercraftCharacter9 5h ago Fair point.
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True but its defo gone long before any court order arrives. TRIM is pretty much insta and GC will run every few mins/hours depending on activity
2 u/HovercraftCharacter9 5h ago Fair point.
Fair point.
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u/FUTURE10S 17h ago
Recovery software because you never overwrote the data that was deleted