charlie_kelly Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 I did a search and I didn't see much discussion of this. I want to know about erasing my SSD. I want to reset all of the bits on my SSD to their original, unprogrammed values. I believe this means setting them back to 1, because apparently 0 is hi and 1 is low with flashram. I see a few utilities out there for erasing an SSD, but couldn't i just use DD for this? Something like "dd of=/dev/sda if=/dev/zero", of course maybe that should be /dev/one :laughing:. Also, while I'm asking about this, on a conventional hard drive I might use something like a "Boot and Nuke" utility, which does successive writes in weird random patterns, to clear sensitive data from a device. Is this necessary on a flash device? or is just doing a full erase enough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthohol Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 try reading through the stickys on this forum :): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 Parted Disk will do the job right. There's a sticky on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie_kelly Posted September 26, 2010 Author Share Posted September 26, 2010 ok, so i've read through the stickies and it looks like i would want to use something like parted magic to issue the drives "secure erase" command. I still would like to know if something like boot-and-nuke is unnecessary on an ssd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted September 27, 2010 Corsair Employee Share Posted September 27, 2010 Please use either Parted Magic, HDD Erase or G-Parted to secure erase the SSD drive only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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