> Basically anything that is '0' will just get marked that way and not saved. But as > you use a drive stuff gets data but not accessible anymore as delete is just removing > the pointer to the data not the data.
AFAIK VHD and similar formats do not save data if it's not allocated in the MFT (or whatever table corresponds to the formatting of the partition).
> SSDs uses trim that really does 0 it out in the > background for you. Normal HD's dont.
That's not a plus, but a limitation of SSDs, which need to zero out every page/cluster before using it again. Using trim in the background speeds up the process of finding the right page to write directly instead of having to clean and then write, which would be slow. The trim command wasn't needed in mechanical hard disks so it didn't exist.
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