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Does Microsoft Intune remote wipe treat SSD differently from HDD?

Shahid QAYYUM 20 Reputation points
2023-06-09T07:16:57.79+00:00

You would know that wiping SSD is a completely different process than wiping HDD. In HDD the data is overwritten by random data for example and that is repeated several times. If the same process is applied to SSD, the life of SSD will be greatly reduced. In case of SSD you do not execute real delete operations to prevent write cycles.

How does the Microsoft Intune remote wipe work? Does it treat SSD differently from HDD or as the same? Can we securely erase SSDs using Microsoft Intune remote wipe?

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  1. Pavel yannara Mirochnitchenko 13,336 Reputation points MVP
    2023-06-09T07:45:16.3933333+00:00

    Intune wipe only activates Windows Reset function which is built in and that deletes personal files. To deep dive in that, you need to understand, what Windows Reset really does.

    Another topic, HDD and SSD wipe are different, even if you initiate that from Bios. You are right, SSD will be ruined if it would be written each block several times, so actually SSD is cleaned only by erasing the beginning block and ending block, so the data cannot be accessible by any recovery. I guess data read in SSD and HDD are that different.

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