Why does deleted data stay on a HDD once written, waiting to be overwritten, as opposed to being removed when requesting deletion?

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Why does deleted data stay on a HDD once written, waiting to be overwritten, as opposed to being removed when requesting deletion?

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Efficiency. If there’s a paper document that you don’t need, you move it to the trash. You have to do extra work to run it through the shredder.

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