OwOarchist comments on It turns out the fastest way to uninstall a program is to wipe the entire drive

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

How does a hard drive include enough processing power to encrypt/decrypt things without having any impact on read/write times?

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[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

Dedicated chips are really fast! They do one thing fast.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

What do you mean? Even a $1 microcontroller can do stuff like that nowadays.

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[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The hardware variants have a chip onboard that can do that when the user enables it. Hence essentially no impact on performance.

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