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Do I really have to use secure erase (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] 14 points 2 months ago*

nope, i mean that's just useless. (it does kinda do the job, but wears it down, and not as effective since SSDs aren't really predictable because of wear leveling stuff and lie to the OS) there's an ATA Secure Erase feature that can be used instead.

some relevant link https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=16716

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