The Comparison of Enable and Disable Usage of TRIM Command on Solid State Drive

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Narongrid Kamsaenrat
Woratouch Witchuvanit

Abstract

The purposes of this study were: 1) to compare digital forensics programs between enabled and disabled TRIM command in Encase and AXIOM and 2) to compare types of data between a resident and a non-resident in the case of enabled and disabled TRIM command. Four sample types of data files were used, including a resident txt file, a non-a resident txt file, a resident png file, and a non-resident png file with 1,000 sample files on a solid state drive. We recovered the data before and after rebooting the computer with Encase and AXIOM and to compare the experimental results between enabling the TRIM command and disabling the TRIM command. The results revealed that in the system with the enabled TRIM command, Both Encase and AXIOM could recover all the resident files while non-resident files could not be recovered. On the other hand, in the systems with disabled TRIM commands, both Encase and AXIOM could recover resident files, but partially recovering non-resident data files by Encase and AXIOM provided the same results and rebooting your computer results in less data recovery.

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Kamsaenrat, N., & Witchuvanit, W. (2023). The Comparison of Enable and Disable Usage of TRIM Command on Solid State Drive. Journal of Criminology and Forensic Science, 9(1), 171–186. retrieved from https://so02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/forensic/article/view/260013
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