On 07/02/14 17:25, Can Jeuleers wrote:

On 02/07/2014 05:11 PM, David Brown wrote:

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The only thing you can't erase are re-mapped sectors - but hopefully
those will be rare!

I wonder if using the Secure Erase feature destroys all sectors
(including remapped-ones) or not.

I think secure erase can be done in different ways.  On disks that have
full-disk encryption, it simply erases (or changes) the password.  For
other drives, it has to write through all sectors on the disk - I would
expect re-mapped sectors are included, but I don't know the details.

Also, what level of trust do people on this list have that the disk's
Secure Erase feature does what it says on the tin?