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Formatting a Solid-State Drive (SSD) has which of the following effects on the drive? [Check all answers that apply]
Formatting the drive does not reliably remove data and should therefore be physically destroyed.
Data is overwritten and is not recoverable on the drive.
Formatting the drive overwrites blocks with new data, sufficiently sanitizing the data on the drive.
Remnant data remains on the drive and is recoverable with forensic tools.
Formatting a Solid State Drive (SSD) does not reliably remove data on the drive and remnant data can be recovered with forensic tools. Because blocks on a SSD are logical and are mapped to physical blocks, when formatting, those blocks are not overwritten as is the case with magnetic drives and the only way to reliably sanitize data on the drive is through physical destruction. Likewise, blocks on a SSD that contain data are not overwritten; data will be written to a new block instead and the previous block will be marked as unallocated. Edit: Ever heard of TRIM? What this has to do with Information Security Policy? poorly worded question
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