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

  • Axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 hours ago

    So much bad advice in here relating to NVME’s.

    Any NVME worth it’s salt these days is an OPAL adhering self encrypting capable drive for data storage.

    This means in Linux you simply install nvme-cli, then do a mode 2 crypto erase and the crypto key is dropped and all data on the drive becomes unreadable.

    Y’all could stand to get with the times a bit more and learn about what NVME’s actually bring to the table

    https://tinyapps.org/docs/nvme-secure-erase.html

    For drives with it disabled, mode 1 wipe will have the controller fill all regions with meaningless data to wipe it.