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Chris has personally written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times-and that's just here at How-To Geek. solid-state storage: External storage devices like USB flash drives don't support TRIM, which means that deleted files could be recovered from a USB flash drive.Ĭhris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek.

However, it's not so simple as mechanical vs. This should not be the case on modern solid-state drives, as they should use TRIM by default, ensuring that deleted files are deleted immediately. If the drive is a traditional magnetic drive with a spinning platter, deleted files are simply 'marked' as deleted and will be overwritten in the future, making recovery of deleted data easy. Whether this is possible depends on a number of factors. It's often possible to recover deleted files from a drive. Why Do You Need to Securely Wipe a Drive? This Cybersecurity Awareness Week article is brought to you in association with Incogni. Whether you want to wipe an internal drive or an external USB drive, here's how to do it. This ensures deleted files on the drive can't be recovered. Windows has built-in tools that will let you write zeros to a drive, securely erasing its contents.

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