purge

  1. [Data Security] A class of sanitization that makes recovery infeasible using state of the art laboratory techniques, but which preserves the storage media 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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