Our files that is contained in our electronic devices is measured by file size based on units of measurement based on byte, but does it has mass? Yes, data on your hardrive has a mass. Using atoms with the help of Albert Einstein’s infamous equation E=mc2. Now, with that and knowing by 2245 this mas will be the half of the world’s half of the mass. What if we wanted to delete a file? When a file wants to be deleted your file will end up in the trash bin to protect against accidental deletion the file still exist in the computer just thrown in a quarantine state in your disk. From here you can reinstall it to your computer, when you want to delete a file completely you empty the trash bin where it gets deleted completely or is it?
The file doesn’t get deleted or pops out of existence it just gets ready to be used as a free space for another file to get overwritten and yes you can still reinstall it to your device by using special data recovery software. This changes if you happened to overwrite the deleted file however as it can cause problems and to get file corrupted. As some used it to their advantage by having more of an effect on their art for you you will be left with a corrupted file. But some people don’t want even a chance of their data coming back that they overwrite their data, some of them even do it more then once like a government. But there is a chance that a bad sector can give away your data, by having a broken drive that a device cant access the data that was put there stays in there. To counter this governments shreds the disks by sending them to dumps, electronic waste dumps. Ghana is one of the most popular locations we know of why? Well its cheap. But even after all this measurements some criminals can access the data. So the safest way to to delete all of the data is by waiting actually until the Heat Death of the universe. Practically a universe where the energy that is required to for us to live and more importantly the data to be accessed being depleted, not only a the governments data but the data of our memories to be all gone like a flag on the moon becoming a white flag symbolizing our defeat against the universe.
Sources:
https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/does-the-digital-data-on-your-hard-disk-have-mass.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_size