Cleaning SSD

cavemanoc · 19 Feb 2012 at 16:29

Sorry - I'm sure it's covered thoroughly, but my search skills have failed.

I'm looking to clean a couple of my SSDs to restore their performance. I have tried Parted Magic as per the thread on the Corsair site, but the programme fails on both machines I have tried. I don't really like the look of HDDerase as I don't want to mess about unplugging drives (It's for my XPS m1730 laptop!)

So....Surely there must be a simple windows based bit of software that lets me wipe a SSD to restore it back to factory speediness?

cavemanoc · 19 Feb 2012 at 17:54

That's my plan for my Force 3, but my older Samsung drives don't support Trim unfortunately - Surely it can't be this hard to wipe a drive?

cavemanoc · 20 Feb 2012 at 07:48

Reading through the instructions it says that I have to disconnect any drives not being erased - with my laptop that is a massive faf as I have to take the drive cage out and swap in the drive to be erased - not the end of the world, but a faf none-the-less. That said - does HDD Erase support erasing USB drives? I thought it could only do ones connected directly to Sata 0 and 1?

cavemanoc · 21 Feb 2012 at 08:43

I thought Parted wasn't compatible with the M4 drives :confused:

cavemanoc · 21 Feb 2012 at 10:46

Glad you guys got it to work - I found the warning Here, which linked to this user's experience Here

Haven't looked into it as I don't have an M4 (will have to wait for the 2nd hand ones to appear nice and cheap

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cavemanoc · 1 Mar 2012 at 09:42

I'd like to know the answer too - is there more to it than writing zeros or is that enough to refresh the drive?