I am giving away a shitty 128GB SSD, which was used with LUKS 2 for most of it's lifetime. As far as I know, it's good practice to secure-erase it, but I'm too lazy to reinstall the OS on it (I already did it once). Is it really needed?

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[–] 1 point 2 months ago (5 children)

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/your-disk should do it in your case. And in 99% of cases.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    this is just gonna cause useless wear on the ssd. only do this to hdds

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    I think you mean doing that for more than once has no extra effect on an SSD. Shouldn't we overwrite the unencrypted content for at least once?

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