How to Secure erase SSD in windows?

kona786 · 2 Feb 2017 at 16:32

I have a spare Samsung 830 SSD which I would like to install in a laptop. I would like to Secure erase the SSD first.

Can I do this by connecting the ssd via 'sata to usb' to my desktop and then use a program in windows to do the secure erase?

darael · 2 Feb 2017 at 18:31

I always used Parted Magic from UBCD. It's not from within Windows as you would prefer, but you can easily make a USB stick with UBCD on it.

mattyfez · 2 Feb 2017 at 19:47

Yeah just hook the drive up and format it, and if more secure wipe is needed, Ccleaner has a blank space cleaning tool so you can do 1, 3 or more overwrites across the whole drive.

ED209 · 2 Feb 2017 at 20:13

use the secure erase option in the Samsung magician software, allows you to create a USB stuck to boot from and then secure erase

BlackAle · 5 Feb 2017 at 01:52

mattyfez said:
Ccleaner has a blank space cleaning tool so you can do 1, 3 or more overwrites across the whole drive.

Really bad idea to apply mechanical HD secure erase techniques to an SSD. They don't work and also shorten the SSD's life.

Phil2008 · 5 Feb 2017 at 03:03

delete plz

Doogles · 5 Feb 2017 at 03:21

BlackAle said:
Really bad idea to apply mechanical HD secure erase techniques to an SSD. They don't work and also shorten the SSD's life.

My 840 EVO has a 80TB write limit, doing a full write of the drive like that twice is only going to touch 0.24TB of that limit, I wouldn't mind doing it myself considering over the 3+ years I've owned the drive I have written about 12TB to it.

Phil2008 · 5 Feb 2017 at 13:08

I always secure erase my ssd's before restoring a backup or doing a fresh install. I have always done this since buying my first ssd that was 90gb for a crazy price of £150 :eek:

KIA · 5 Feb 2017 at 16:22

Doogles said:
My 840 EVO has a 80TB write limit, doing a full write of the drive like that twice is only going to touch 0.24TB of that limit, I wouldn't mind doing it myself considering over the 3+ years I've owned the drive I have written about 12TB to it.

SSD secure erase is much faster and will wipe the reserved space.

https://www.micron.com/~/media/docu...al-marketing-brief/brief_ssd_secure_erase.pdf

pingu666 · 7 Feb 2017 at 02:41

fyi i once accidently formatted a ssd, couldnt recover any data from it, maybe things are better now but normal quick format seemed pretty darn effective to me