Sandisk Il Ltd.

Moredechai Teicher

Eran Leibinger

Eugen Zilberman

Ofer Tzur

Rami Koren

Nimrod Wiesz

Sagiv Aharonoff

A data storage device includes one or more non-volatile, blockwise erasable data storage media and a mechanism for sanitizing the media in response to a single external stimulus or in response to a predetermined physical or logical condition. Optionally, only part of the media is sanitized, at a granularity finer than the blocks of the medium. Setting a flag in an auxiliary nonvolatile memory enables an interrupted sanitize to be detected and restarted. Optionally, a 'death certificate' verifying the sanitizing is issued. Preferably, the media are configured in a manner that allows atomic operations of the sanitizing to be effected in parallel.

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Hod Hahsaron, Israel

Moredechai Teicher