
If you are not the original owner of this drive, and that owner has no claim to it, you might still be responsible for the drive data.When you deleted a file in the traditional mechanical hard drives, it isn't removed from the operating system. Seagate is not responsible for lost user data or data remaining on the drive after erase.NVMe SSDs take 1 hour per terabyte per pass.Sanitize Cypto, Revert, and RevertSP (PSID) take at most 2 minutes.Overwrite commands take longer to implement.Overwrite commands comply with the Lot 9 data deletion regulation providing "the effective erasure of all traces of existing data from a data storage device, overwriting the data completely in such a way that access to the original data, or parts of them, becomes infeasible for a given level of effort." Command duration:.


Not all commands provide data overwriting.All commands comply with ISO 27040 and NIST 800-88 Standards.The Secure Data Deletion process must be allowed to complete to be effective and to avoid inadvertent data or drive issues.
