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    5 months ago

    Computers use an address to tell it where the data is stored on your memory drive

    Erase just deleted the address referencing the location, meaning other things can overwrite it.

    Secure erase actually deletes the address and overwrites the data that was at where the address was pointing to. Sometimes it’s all zeros, some programs will write random crap over it