Some myths about computers.
You can't RAID an SSD..... Yes, you can.
Multi cores and hyper-threading make a computer faster. No they don't. They help by off loading back ground tasks, so the computer doesn't slow down. Your computer is only as fast as its clock speed, and the speed of its different buses and the level of its various interfaces. Very few applications are designed for parallel processing. Multi cores do not SPEED UP a machine.
You can wipe clean an SSD of all data. Nope. Every manufacturer has their own mapping system. There is no, approved, DOD method of wiping an SSD or any form of SS memory. I have been able to recover many of these, under direction from the owners, to recover, even after they have run Darik's Nuk'em.
Recycling centers love it when you drill holes in your old hard drives. No. We hate you. And we hate you with a passion when you drop off this little gift full of silicon shards that we then have to bag as hazardous waste. For god's sake, just press the central spindle on a bearing press till you hear it crack the frame. Or slam the central spindle with a hammer, but stop drilling them, and stop shooting them.
Speaking of drills, a reading device, like a floppy drive with no disk or a USB port, or RAM memory, or the CPU doesn't contain any information. Maybe the NSA could recover something, but you need millions of dollars of equipment to do that.
We once got a machine that had been drilled, they drilled the motherboard, they drilled the power supply, they snapped all the ram in half, they drilled the floppy drives, the GPU card, the network card, bent all the pins on the CPU, and mangled all the ports with a screwdriver. The only thing left functioning was the 500 GB hard drive. Curious, I ran a preliminary
scan on the hard drive, cause these were valuable at the time... which doesn't give any info, but can tell if info is there. And it was completely intact and not wiped and passed the performance tests. So we wiped it, and resold it.
MS operating systems are secure if you use an admin password. No. No. No they are not.
MS is so terrible at security, that if a client, didn't know their password for admin or some other account, it was easier, to run cracking soft, see it, and then tell them what the password was then to have them play phone tag at guessing what it was. 8 minutes and I'm in. Other wise just put the drive in a Linux environment and read it anyway.
Just know that a recycle site, or a refurbisher, can not say honestly if they can wipe your SSD, M.2 Stick, or board level SS memory. We really can't be sure.
