It's also ineffective--due to wear-leveling and reserved area/overprovisioning, traditional utilities that write random or 0s to a disk cannot be considered secure. For an SSD, you need to do a Secure Erase. Secure Erase is an ATA standard whereby the drive performs a complete wipe using a manufacturer-defined internal mechanism. There are a few options here: you can use Samsung and Intel's SSD utilities (supported on some operating systems and non-boot drives only), use any Linux LiveCD and run the hdparm commands manually, or use Parted Magic ($5--bootable image) which wraps it in a nice GUI. I do the latter.
The good news is that Secure Erase on an SSD only takes a minute or two. -----Original Message----- From: Hardware [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 7:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] SSD-wondering? I would try the manufacturers website, I guess. I know with a regular HDD you'd have to write 0 & 1's (for example) over & over again. This would be wasteful on a SSD as you have a limited numbers of access before it will go "bad". Interesting question. Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..." > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [H] SSD-wondering? > From: DSinc <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, July 24, 2014 3:43 pm > To: HWG <[email protected]> > > > Is there any program/app available that may allow me to ERASE an ssd > installed on my PC???? > > I may accept a 'FORMAT' program/app, but I wish to ensure that my ssd > is totally blank. > Like without ANY history remaining on it. > Thank you, > Duncan
