I'm less concerned about the HDDs as I figure a zero fill pass should mostly be more than enough, and if not a second or third to remove doubt. I'm hoping it's enough as SOME of the information I'm reading casts doubt into whether it's truly reliable to "erase" an SSD.
One write isn't going to kill it, afterall.įor good measure I used the "Secure Erase+" feature again to just remove all partition/volume information to have it similar to a new, unformatted drive would be. I thought this would be a bad thing but it was "optimize" not "defragmenting" so I let it do it. I also went to do the Windows "optimize disk" function, as I saw this recommended (but that it wasn't sufficient on its own), and Defraggler came up (reason being I have this installed and set to replace the Windows defragment tool), and so I used its "optimize" function, figuring it'd be in effect doing the same thing (any ideas?), which I realized shortly after it started SEEMED to zero fill the drive as well.
I ended up using "Secure Erase+" (MSI BIOS feature), and then a TRIM command, as mentioned with my last reply. Originally posted by emoticorpse:Just write once over the entire thing filling it with useless files? I'm doing somewhat that (a zero fill) with the HDDs, but I wasn't sure how this was to be done with SSDs.
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