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
Thankfully it is largely just a few commands with built in tools to tell the drive firmware to secure erase
SATA SSD: https://acceptdefaults.com/2023/01/06/secure-erase-an-ssd/
NVME SSD: https://acceptdefaults.com/2022/08/11/secure-erase-an-nvme-drive/
This. And then when it’s done, use a hex editor and look at the raw disk to make sure it actually worked. Some manufacturers don’t implement it properly.
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
According to the upvotes, this seems to be the way. I will try that, thank you!