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purge

1. [Data Security]

Sanitize using physical or logical techniques that make recovery of target data infeasible using state of the art laboratory techniques, but which preserves the storage media and storage device in a potentially reusable state. [ISO/IEC 27040]

2. [Storage System]

The process of returning a solid state storage device to a state in which subsequent writes execute, as closely as possible, as if the device had never been used and does not contain any valid data.

See FOB.

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