University of California at San Diego study found it’s more difficult to erase data stored on solid-state drives than on hard disk drives. Experts say there is no way to tell whether a vendor’s security is foolproof from a $100,000 engineering effort. One surefire method for protecting your SSD data is cryptographic erasure, said Kent Smith, senior director of product marketing at SSD controller manufacturers SandForce. SandForce’s controllers include native 128-bit AES encryption that allows users to set up passwords.”]
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