And additionnaly, isn’t there a way to exploit this so we can store more stuff on PCs?

Edit: can’t thank you all individually but thanks to everyone, I learnt something today, appreciate all of your replies!

  • pearsaltchocolatebar
    23·
    3 months ago

    Yup, and many security suites will include a tool that writes all 0s or garbage to those sectors so the data can’t be recovered as easily (you really need multiple passes for it to be gone for good).

    • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      right, i’m super out of date but you;d want to do shred or some dd dev/random > device thing to securely erase them.