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minus-squarePushButton@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 days ago All thats needed to wipe the disk is to delete You are jumping to a point in time after what I am asking: “all you need” is to delete a key -> No, you need to encrypt the disk before, which is the step prior, and without it, deleting a key change a thing… So basically, the part “hardware” built-in could make sense, but the guy didn’t specify any if this… In other words, zeroing the disk is going to be faster “in normal circumstances”.
minus-squareSlurpingPus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoYou don’t need to encrypt empty disk space. Formatting a disk only writes some data structures here and there, leaving vast majority of the disk unchanged.
You are jumping to a point in time after what I am asking:
“all you need” is to delete a key -> No, you need to encrypt the disk before, which is the step prior, and without it, deleting a key change a thing…
So basically, the part “hardware” built-in could make sense, but the guy didn’t specify any if this…
In other words, zeroing the disk is going to be faster “in normal circumstances”.
You don’t need to encrypt empty disk space. Formatting a disk only writes some data structures here and there, leaving vast majority of the disk unchanged.