Hybrid Drive: HDDs with a small amount of SSD storage a “hybrid” between an HDD and an SSD. SSD: Solid State Drive containing no moving parts Flash Media: Simple storage media using chips instead of spinning platters Magnetic Tape: Cartridge or spool-style tapes used to store data, often used as backup storage in today’s storage environments. HDD: Hard Disk drive, with spinning storage platters This process leaves the media fully functional.

Media Destruction (R2: Physical Sanitization/Destruction): The process of destroying storage media in order to destroy the data it contains.ĭata wiping / overwriting (R2: Logical Sanitization/Erasure): The process of eradicating data from electronic storage media by writing meaningless data to the entirety of the storage area. Data: Media is the physical mechanism on which information is stored, while data is the information itself.ĭata Destruction (R2: Data Sanitization): The process of eradicating the data found on storage media of any kind, whether through means of destroying the storage media itself, or by rendering the data inaccessible.

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