Nick

I know what you're saying about spare/reassigned blocks. But I'm not asking about bad blocks, I know those are an issue. I'm talking about normal data from good blocks. If you were to copy a large amount of (none privet) data onto the drive taking up almost all the drive, the drive would be forced to use all the good blocks up regardless of wear leveling

I know what you're saying about spare/reassigned blocks. But I'm not asking that. I'm talking about normal data from good blocks.

Hello Enigma2Illusion, thank you I'm just curious though, say you end up just filling the hard drive up with normal data that's not privet, wouldn't that essentially do the same thing as wiping most of the drive since most of the drive would be used up and rewritten to at that point? Interesting read on damaged sectors. Was not aware of that. So this further proves the importance of full disk encryption. I'm assuming if you used full disk encryption from the start, then the moved bad sectors to the...

Hello Enigma2Illusion, thank you I'm just curious though, say you end up just filling the hard drive up with normal data that's not privet, wouldn't that essentially do the same thing as wiping most of the drive since most of the drive would be used up and rewritten to at that point? Interesting read on damaged sectors. Was not aware of that. So this further proves the importance of full disk encryption.

Hello Enigma2Illusion, thank you I'm just curious though, say you end up just filling the hard drive up with normal data that's not privet, wouldn't that essentially do the same thing as wiping most of the drive since most of the drive would be used up and rewritten to at that point? As far as reallocated sectors touching the damaged sectors, that should be the same even on older conventional hard drives I would think as the drive keeps a map of bad sectors.

I know you can't shred individual files on an SSDs with programs like Bleachbit because wear leveling prevents the data from being written to the same place so it does not work. Someone mentioned you have to use NVMe Format on the entire SSD drive. What if the drive was formatted with full disk encryption using VC - would that essentially do the same thing as preforming an NVMe Format? Thanks

I know you can't shred individual files on an SSDs with programs like Bleachbit because wear leveling prevents the data from being written to the same place so it does not work. Someone mentioned you have to use NVMe Format on the entire SSD drive. What if drive was formatted with full disk encryption with VC, would that essentially do the same thing as preforming an NVMe Format? Thanks

I could not find info on this. But in windows for example, when you have a file open such as note pad or word pad file, even if you shredded the file, it saves a temporary copy of your file to the hard drive while you are viewing the file. If you have passwords backed up in text files, could I assume that a hard drive scrub could allow an adversary to simply read the contents of the actual file by viewing the temp file on the hard drive? Obviously this would not be a concern if the file was on an...