Why does deleting things clear storage even though the pc only can’t find it?
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As others have pointed out, deleting just marks the area as writable, but doesn’t actually remove the data. The reason this is how it works in the first place is because removing the data takes time and generally isn’t needed. For people/organizations that have sensitive data, they will actually go back are write zeros over everything.
For SSDs, it’s actually important to not actually wipe that data because they have a finite number of writes before they become unusable.
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