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Secure Erase
Secure Erase: An overwrite technology using firmware-based process to overwrite a hard drive.
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Definition
An overwrite technology using firmware-based process to overwrite a hard drive. Is a drive command defined in the ANSI ATA and SCSI disk drive interface specifications, which runs inside drive hardware. It completes in about 1/8 the time of 5220 block erasure. (SP 800-88) (NISTIR)
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