Just a few years ago, it was believed that it was impossible to secure erase SSD drives thanks to the technology’s Flash Translation Layer, a unique firmware interface that makes an SSD drive appear to a PC like a FAT device. Coupled with the fact that different SSD manufacturers use different technologies, this made it virtually impossible for one data erasure standard to successfully support them all. And with SSD drives estimated to account for 40% of the hard drive market by the year 2016, the inability to securely erase […]