Paragraph Number

251

In a further embodiment, the apparatus includes an erase confirmation module 1016 that receives a confirmation that the existing data on the storage device 150 has been overwritten with characters so that the existing data is non-recoverable. The confirmation may be forwarded to a requesting device or client 114 and may be used to verify that the existing data has been put in a condition where it is non-recoverable. In other embodiments, the secure erase command may direct the storage device 150 to overwrite the existing data with a specific character or character string or the execute command may be executed multiple times. One of skill in the art will recognize other ways to configure one or more secure erase commands to ensure the existing data is non-recoverable.

Added by DJM 3 2021