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by Arrath 1369 days ago
From my reading it doesn't appear to zero the data, just overdrive the controller and hope to burn it out, which may or may not have downstream effects on the memory chip itself.
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That if it can produce enough current for it in the first place and I kinda doubt that. I've seen chips survive short term reverse polarity even, this might just be fine