Solid State Drives

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Features New To Windows 7 - File System - Solid State Drives
... the operating system on traditional hard disk drives (HDD) with rotating platters ... Since Solid state drives (SSD) differ from mechanical HDDs in some key areas (no moving parts, write amplification, limited number of erase cycles allowed for reliable operation), it is beneficial to ... has no advantages, and may instead shorten the life of the solid state memory ...
Data Remanence - Complications - Data On Solid-state Drives
... San Diego has uncovered problems inherent in erasing data stored on solid-state drives (SSDs) ... twice is usually, but not always, sufficient to sanitize the drive ... Third, none of the existing hard drive-oriented techniques for individual file sanitization are effective on SSDs ...

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