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Secure Erase Free Space Error Message
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<blockquote data-quote="pm-r" data-source="post: 1710863" data-attributes="member: 175845"><p>Unless of course the user is using a SSD drive in which case they should do some reading, like Apple's article:</p><p>"<em>Note: With an SSD drive, Secure Erase and Erasing Free Space are not available in Disk Utility. These options are not needed for an SSD drive because a standard erase makes it difficult to recover data from an SSD. …</em>"</p><p><a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201949" target="_blank">https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201949</a></p><p></p><p>I have no idea if Terminal can tell the difference between a HDD and any SSD when running such a command, but I'm sure not going to be a tester and try… <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Oops.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Oops:" title="Oops :Oops:" data-shortname=":Oops:" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>- Patrick</p><p>======</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pm-r, post: 1710863, member: 175845"] Unless of course the user is using a SSD drive in which case they should do some reading, like Apple's article: "[I]Note: With an SSD drive, Secure Erase and Erasing Free Space are not available in Disk Utility. These options are not needed for an SSD drive because a standard erase makes it difficult to recover data from an SSD. …[/I]" [url]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201949[/url] I have no idea if Terminal can tell the difference between a HDD and any SSD when running such a command, but I'm sure not going to be a tester and try… :Oops: - Patrick ====== [/QUOTE]
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