Hey guys,
I want to shred/sanitize my SSDs. If it was a normal harddrive I would stick to ShredOS / nwipe, but since SSD’s seem to be a little more complicated, I need your advice.
When reading through some posts in the internet, many people recommend using the software from the manufacturer for sanitizing. Currently I am using the SSD SN850X from Western digital, but I also have a SSD 990 PRO from Samsung. Both manufacturers don’t seem to have a specialized linux-compatible software to perform this kind of action.
How would be your approach to shred your SSD (without physically destroying it)?
~sp3ctre
Sorry, but can you explain a little, how this is done exactly? What should I see, when everything worked correctly?
Preferably all zeroes, possibly random data or a fixed string. Certainly not anything readable.
No, you don’t want all zeroesz, you want random data.
Within Linux you can quite easily do this yourself too
It’s fine for SSDs it does not have the magnetic residence where you could recreate data.