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Isn't that what 'Secure Empty Trash...' does? (In the Finder menu)


You can set it to write all 0's once. You can't set it to write all 1's just once. There's another utility on OS X that will write 1's, 0's, then 1's. But using 3 writes means a considerable inflation in the number of dirtied physical blocks in the SSD.




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