If you shred a file on HDD does it affect SSD?

[Priva]

I have 2 drives currently. Drive C which is the SSD and drive X which is the 2TB hard drive. When I right click a file on the hard drive (X) and shred it with 35 passes does that put that in the SSD's recycle bin? This is important to know because I heard file shredding is not good at all with SSDs. I just want to make sure when I shred a file on my HDD it doesn't do anything to the SSD

I'm using a program called "File Shredder"

 

[DHFF]

you wont have a problem. you are shredding the file on the hard drive. it only hurts if you are shredding files on the SSD itself. this is because shredding involves rewriting data over and over and over again. IF this was done on an SSD it would wear down the cells. in your case the files are being shredded on the Hard drive so all activity remains on that drive. and 35 passes is pure craziness! You trying to get rid of government secrets?? 😀 honestly 3 passes destroys data pretty much completely. perhaps if they WHERE government secrets and another government REALLY wanted those files they could maybe...possibly reconstruct them but very few others will be that dedicated. and that is assuming anyone knows that there WAS data on that hard drive to recover at all. a shredded and partitioned hard drive looks just like any other partitioned hard drive.

 

[Priva]

you wont have a problem. you are shredding the file on the hard drive. it only hurts if you are shredding files on the SSD itself. this is because shredding involves rewriting data over and over and over again. IF this was done on an SSD it would wear down the cells. in your case the files are being shredded on the Hard drive so all activity remains on that drive. and 35 passes is pure craziness! You trying to get rid of government secrets?? 😀 honestly 3 passes destroys data pretty much completely. perhaps if they WHERE government secrets and another government REALLY wanted those files they could maybe...possibly reconstruct them but very few others will be that dedicated. and that is assuming anyone knows that there WAS data on that hard drive to recover at all. a shredded and partitioned hard drive looks just like any other partitioned hard drive.

I'll admit 35 passes is overkill lol. I changed to it to 8 passes because it's quick like the DOD option.

 

[DHFF]

8 passes is still crazy but less so then 35.
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