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'
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
Greg,
Thanks again for your expertise. I will go to Intel/and/or Crucial for
this MX100/128GB SSD. To dateI have installed 3 SSD's.
2 were Samsung 840 Pro's. Bothwent very well. This 'try' was with a
Crucial MX100/128GB SSD my OB tried
on his old PC. It did not work, but in fairness, he is not
My friend down in Florida is sending his daughter to college. She's
saved up money in the range of $500 to $600 for a laptop. I haven't
nailed down all her requirements, but she did mention she'd like one
with the detachable keyboard, then rattled off some standard stuff like
storing stuff
Thane,
Thanks. I found the Acer Aspire Switch which is one of those
convertibles, not too expensive. I'll bring up the damage protection
with her.
Steve
On 7/25/2014 5:55 PM, Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 05:56 PM 25/07/2014, Steve Tomporowski wrote:
My friend down in Florida is sending
