SSD are a bit different than magnetic media and potentially a lot harder to recover.
The main difference is that there is a garbage collection mechanism which physically erases unused pages in order that they become available for writes. This happens within the drive as long as it's powered up and can't be disabled. A quick format won't overwrite files directly but it will TRIM all the data blocks. The longer the drive is powered up the better the odds that the garbage collector has erased the relevant pages.
Another difference is that the logical block addresses don't correspond directly to physical storage, the mapping changes over time and in general not all physical storage is directly accessible. So you can't just read every sector the way you can on a magnetic disk. Well, you can, but the results you get back will be arbitrarily jumbled up to some degree.
Worth a go though.
The main difference is that there is a garbage collection mechanism which physically erases unused pages in order that they become available for writes. This happens within the drive as long as it's powered up and can't be disabled. A quick format won't overwrite files directly but it will TRIM all the data blocks. The longer the drive is powered up the better the odds that the garbage collector has erased the relevant pages.
Another difference is that the logical block addresses don't correspond directly to physical storage, the mapping changes over time and in general not all physical storage is directly accessible. So you can't just read every sector the way you can on a magnetic disk. Well, you can, but the results you get back will be arbitrarily jumbled up to some degree.
Worth a go though.
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