[Solved] Securely Erasing an SSD ???

[The Giving One]

Hello fellow Steam users,

I have been doing some research on how to securely erase an SSD in order to get them back to like-new performance levels. It seems that some SSD manufacturers have their own software to do this, but most say these are not optimal, according to what I have seen. There is also software like PartedMagic, which was once free to download and use but not now it seems.

From what I have also seen, it is best to write all "1" (ones) to the SSD when erasing instead of all "0" (zeros), as this only writes to the drive and does not erase/write during the process. Let's assume for this topic that TRIM has NOT been supported for the drives that need to be erased, as the chipset was pre six series when TRIM was not supported for RAID confugurations, according to what I have read. It seems the latest Intel RST (rapid storage technology) driver does support TRIM in RAID configurations. (Versions of 11.5 and after ???)

So my question to you other savy Steam users is this....how would you securely erase an SSD that you want to use again in a new build considering the state of the drives as I have described them here above for this topic ?

My main concern is performance and health of the SSD, and not making sure data is safely revoved (security) during the process.

Thanks in advance for reading and for your input.

[_I_]

hammer is too easy, i like going the hard way
a hole thru the ram chips will do the trick
or metal filings inside the platter area will make recovery impossible

[The Giving One]

Thanks so much for all the help and attention here, friends. I mainly made this thread because there is so much info out there about the right and wrong way to erase an SSD, so I wanted to get opinions from you all here as this is a great forum and it has great members attending.

My mind is at ease now, so I will just prepare and maintain my SSD's from now on as suggested here. Thanks again for all the help always, as I do appreciate it very much.

Others may post of course, but I will mark the thread as solved now.

_I_님이 먼저 게시:

hammer is too easy, i like going the hard way
a hole thru the ram chips will do the trick
or metal filings inside the platter area will make recovery impossible

MUUWAHAHAHAHAHA !!!....LOL..That is just devious man !!