SSD's don't delete like an HDD. Recovery, without modifying the settings of the SSD, is non-trivial. One dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sd0 and you are not recovering that data. I've yet to find a recovery company capable of getting any useful data even when given the location of a text file and all they had to do was tell me what was in the file and nothing else.

It's become a phobia for quite some time now because of the laws.

It turns out the theory that some with an electron microscope could extra several layers of data was very wrong but people took it as gospel. Turns out it's an order of magnitude more difficult.

Most recovery is done from a 'they deleted the file and turned the machine off' type situation. Meaning no actual wiping occurred more than pointers to the file.

Specifically, for SSD's, it depends on the trim setting on your drive.

But even for HDD's, one solid dd wipe to full and there is not going to be any data recovery.

Now if you're talking hard drive made before the late 90's then some things can get weird and a few other factors may come into play but most of those hard drives are long dead now but even then it's still extremely difficult to recover data that's been zero'ed.

> but my point is that hardware destruction is the norm in healthcare.

It's also the norm in the federal government for similar reasons.