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suggestions by - Jack H Winters, CTO, Foremay
Here's a presentation written by Foremay

Secure Erase Options for SSDs (pdf) - summary of a paper presented at the Flash Memory Summit

Jack says he chose this article because "It describes options to protect data from loss which is a key concern of enterprise users.

"The presentation discusses different approaches for the secure erase of data on SSD's. Although key destruction of a self-encrypting drive provides some protection and is very fast, the data remains on the drive leaving the possibility of decryption with breakthroughs in the future. Secure erase eliminates this possibility entirely, and can be done with a hardware-based, one-key self-destroy disk purge in a few seconds, or a secure erase using a one-key or software-based method in several seconds. These options provide a range of methods to keep the data secure."

Other SSD article suggestions...

Special Pre-Conference Workshop on Flash Security (directory of papers) - also from the Flash Memory Summit

Jack says, "This is a series of presentations describing various issues and options for keeping data secure, including self-encryption ."


Here's another article suggestion....

Secure deletion of flash based SSDs

Jack says "This is a discussion of the issues of secure erase and key destruction, including reference to articles on the secure erase concerns in: Reliably Erasing Data from Flash-Based SSDs (pdf) (from Usenix's FAST '11 conference) and Flash-based SSDs nearly impossible to erase (blog on InfoWorld.com)."

Editor:- thanks Jack for sharing your SSD links.

see also:- Foremay - editor mentions on StorageSearch.com
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Since first coming to the attention of StorageSearch.com's readers in March 2009 - Foremay has often appeared in the top 10 SSD companies list and from time to time in the fastest SSDs lists too.
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this set of SSD bookmark suggestions (on the left)

was published - March 2011

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