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by burnerthrow008 273 days ago
I thought all SSDs did that for wear-leveling purposes.
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They do, but consumer ones usually don't implement the additional API (TCG Opal) that lets you lock/unlock the hardware encryption key. Without that capability you can't use it to implement full-disk encryption. They do usually implement the NVMe secure erase feature though, which will rotate it.