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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Forgetting where it is on the drive is just as good as deleting it for almost all applications. Why spend system resources if you don’t have to?

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