Just curious as I want to replace my original Steam Deck before the OLED releases.

Is a Steam Deck safe to sell after performing a factory reset? As in, will the next owner be able to obtain any passwords to my steam account or any other account/personal details?

Thanks in advance!

  • icebalm@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Is that the current best practice? I seem to remember reading that overwriting with random data, multiple times, is the most secure way to delete data.

    On current hardware when data is overwritten once the original data cannot be retrieved. The “Gutmann Method” hasn’t been necessary for about 3 decades, even though the myth seems to still propagate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmann_method