The Ghosts of Your Files Haunt Old, Erased Hard Drives. Here’s How to Exorcise Them.

There’s a trick to thoroughly wiping all your data before you junk your old external solid state drive—or even computer.
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This is what happens to a file when you delete it from your SSD

Deleting a file on an SSD isn’t as straightforward as it looks.