Think you got rid of that confidential information on your SSD? The results of a new study will come as a rude awakening.

Researchers from the University of California at San Diego delivered a paper at the FAST-11 Conference in San Jose, Calif., last week that shows it's almost impossible to reliably erase data from a solid state drive.

Flash-based solid-state drives nearly impossible to erase | Solid state drives - InfoWorld