I understand traditional methods don’t work with modern SSD, anyone knows any good way to do it?

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    6 months ago

    If you want to keep/sell the drive…

    1. Fill up the rest of the usable space
    2. Encrypt the drive
    3. Throw away the encryption key/password
    4. Hard format (writing zeroes to every bit, sorry if that’s the wrong term

    Is that the best strategy? Or is anything outside of 2 and 3 redundant?

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      6 months ago

      You can’t fill the drive. The drive decides when to use its buffered free storage blocks. It’s at the hardware level and only the Secure Erase command will clear it.

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        6 months ago

        Right, I read some more of the comments and realized that’s what some of the “unreported space” is used for. Makes sense, thanks!

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        6 months ago

        You fill up the usable space. Or the visible space. No one will disamble the device and read from the raw storage.

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        6 months ago

        That makes sense. Thank you!