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Boris Galerkin posted:I have a couple of ancient SATA SSDs that I need to get rid of. I’m unable to connect them up into a computer and write random data onto them and I know that at least 1 of them is unencrypted and was in an old PC. Use a hammer and put a nail through it. Or, well, break it up with the hammer.
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Your friend's understanding looks correct. Unfortunately, I can't find any public vendor data on this. https://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead/ (2015) covers Tech Report's consumer SSD write endurance testing and is pretty detailed, but doesn't touch much on what happens when SSDs are left unpowered. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/655921 and https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/s...rnal-7-9-15.pdf (2015) cover what happens when their enterprise SSD are powered off - essentially there's bitrot after days or weeks of being powered off. I believe there was a second ssd endurance test run by someone that looked somewhat into bitrot, but can't find it at this time. Essentially, there's significant potential for bitrot on SSDs left powered off for some time, especially for SSDs that have been pushed hard in terms of writes. Best option is to leave SSD storage powered on if it'll be needed later.
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