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Comment by archagon

6 hours ago

I believe many enterprise drives have instant-erase functionality (presumably deleting an encryption key).

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SoftTalker  3 hours ago

If they were encrypted to begin with, yes. Many are not.

  • archagon  1 hour ago

    I was under the impression that these drives may be transparently encrypted by default. (Rollable encryption key in hardware, invisible to end-user.)

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