SSD drives continue to be the “future promise” that the hard drive manufacturers are touting. But the disadvantages are beginning to add up. So says the fine folks at UC San Diego, who tested several drives with the classic drive erasing techniques that work very well with platter based drives, and discovered that some of the data was still recoverable. In fact, with some erasing algorithms, ALL of the data was still present.
The SSD drives are touted as the future of laptop hard drives, and yet the inability to erase them is a pretty serious security breach. While we don’t want to “put the hate on” new hard drive technologies by any means, it’s clear this is a huge issue for businesses and in particular, military and government. How to address it is really where the question lies.