Yah definitely not designed for it. With SD you really only have to delete one pass.* As long as it’s a physical and not a logical deletion. The latter just marks it free. The Guttman method was intended for platter drives from over 30yrs ago and he revised as drives changed. And solid state stores w/ gates.

* That being said; unless you can verify what’s inside and you had a seedphrase on it, I’m with fishcake.

Burn it 🔥

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I’d say 6 times does the job nicely to delete the data. Once, then probably not. Consumer grade storage doesn’t over provision block too much, cost! 🐶🐾🫡

He's right i didn't know it was ssd

7 passes is because magnetic resonance