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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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It you really care, throw this on a usb stick and sleep well. It replaces to old dban system, which has gone commercial. https://github.com/PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Do not dban an SSD.

    SSDs do not physically store data the way platter drives do. It may reduce the lifespan of the drive.

    There are other methods for securely erasing SSDs.

    https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/secure-erase-ssd-or-hard-drive

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