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In some storage devices, like the solid-state storage device 102 described herein, updating previously stored data does not overwrite existing data. Attempting to overwrite data with a string of ones or a string of zeros on such a device takes up valuable space without fulfilling the desired intent of overwriting the existing data. For these devices, such as solid-state storage devices 102, a client 114 typically does not have an ability to overwrite data to erase it.

Added by DJM 3 2021