#PARTED MAGIC SECURE ERASE SSD PRO#

What is Parted Magic Parted Magic is an open source partitioning tool. So basically this is most effective way to erase data on your SSD at the hardware level and not software. At this rate, I could technically perform dozens of zero-fills as I want without having anyВ realВ impact on life span. How to: Secure Erase your Solid State Drive (SSD) with Parted MagicFirst off:Don't do this unless you NEED to. For data that resides on hard drives and solid state drives (SSD).

#PARTED MAGIC SECURE ERASE SSD PRO#

According to Samsung Magician, my 950 Pro has only written 9.4TB of data, whereas according to Samsung, the drive is rated up to 400 TB's written. I've heard a lot of people claim that 'you shouldn't zero-fill/random-data fill an ssd'. Used Samsung Magician's performance optimization daily (which I assume simply runs the trim command) 5: Once youre at the Parted Magic desktop, double click Erase Disk, then choose NVMe Secure Erase or you can merely choose Secure Erase - ATA Devices right away if you dont have an m.2 SSDs 6: Select all the m.2 SSDs that you want to secure erase then hit 'Continue. Filled the drive completely with random unimportant pictures, programs, games, etc. Used a bootable windows installer to format the drive (found that the secure erase utility missed the system reserved partition which happened to be on an HDD for some reason (happened a while ago). ran Samsung's secure erase utility via bootable drive once (not sure if it worked, it finished in minutes, which makes it seem a little sketchy. I've found quite a bit of information which is often contradictory to other articles. I know that one way would be to ground it and let it sit for like a year, which would rot the data away, but that takes way too long.

I want it erased as securely as possible (just short of cutting it with a pair of branch snippers) before I sell it to some random stranger (just assume he is a professional scammer/identity thief) l. However, I've read that securely erasing SSD's can be troubling. I'm thinking of upgrading 950 Pro 512 GB NVMe SSD to a larger one (no dual m.2 for me).

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