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Re: [Full-disclosure] Disk wiping -- An alternate approach?
From: Stefan Weimar <full-disclosure_at_nospam>Date: Tue Jan 26 2010 - 18:24:39 GMT
To: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk>
Hi,
Am 26. Januar schrieb Michael Holstein:
> No, wear-leveling (done at the memory controller level) will dynamically
> re-map addresses on the actual flash chip to ensure a relatively
> consistent number of write cycles across the entire drive.
>
> The only way to completely "wipe" a flash disk is with a hammer.
Yes, but what if I overwrite the device with random data from the very first to the very last byte? Suppose the size of the device hasn't decreased I'd think that wear-levelling has no chance to spare blocks in this case.
kind regards
Stefan
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