![]() ![]() Kinda sucks when you find a cheap ebay knockoff SSD installed by the last guy, that now needs destruction. But again, you don't have visibility here, so you have no idea if the drive is actually doing whatever the fuck you tell it to. It's better to send the ATA command Secure Erase Unit or the NVMe command Format NVM to the device and let it either replace it's encryption key (fast), or purge all it's cells if it's not self-encrypted (slower). So even if you "fill" the drive with random 1s and 0s, you still don't touch that extra space, and don't really have visibility to be sure. Change something, it can actually saves the new data in the unallocated area, then flip the pointer. SSD's actually have a little extra storage space they don't make visible to the OS for changes.
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