Securely erase an ssd?

[Baldbloke]

Hi folks,
I'll be selling a 2tb ssd shortly. It was in use as my main C drive prior to me getting a 4Tb.
I'm going to sell the 2Tb.
Had a quick look on line and saw there were a few options to securely erase but wondering how effective or fast these might and how it may affect the life remaining on the ssd once I erased it.
Just wondering what is your go-to method of securely cleaning an ssd?

Thank you.

 

[Baldbloke]

Thank you kind folks....

I erase mine in the motherboard Bios if it has that feature.

My MSI B550 gaming edge doesn't seem to have that feature. Well, I can't find it if it does.

DBAN (free) or Blancco (paid).

Thank you. Dban looks to be a bit involved to erase what is now a spare drive. I can see those steps would be necessary if it were a C drive but it's now a G drive. I'll try and find something that can run from within windows. Haven't looked at Blancco yet. I'll try to see if there's a free doodah for this. I'm only going to need it once in a blue moon. Besides,whilst I read that Dban will do a good job I wonder if my PC would be essentially unuseable whilst it was wiping the target drive. Not sure at all how long I'd be without access to windows.

I've always used Parted Magic to erase my SSD drives. I'm always slightly suspicious of erasing SSD drives, as it only takes a few seconds.

The quick erase dosent actually erase it marks as clear so data can be overwritten or recovered, a secure erase takes much longer.

Thanks mickeyfinn,

 

[Baldbloke]

I have a B550 Gaming plus. Secure Erase + is in the Settings/Advanced menu on that. I had a B450 Tomahawk Max before that & it had that too, but Im not certain if the B450 Mortar has it as its in my other PC. MSI have for some reason do not have your board manual available to download so I cant confirm its on your board. I just assumed that it was a feature on most MSI AM4 boards, so I could be wrong.

Thank you Grimley. I had another look in the bios. I found Secure Erase+ this time. (My observational skills are zero. It finds my 2Tb and 4Tb ssd drives but for some reason they are greyed out and it says "not support". Oh well.

@Mcnumpty2323 Yes it is a 2.5" ssd. Did parted magic do a proper secure wipe? There seems to be a little difference of opinion on here whether this just clears the attributes or does in fact do a proper secure erase.
Corsair toolbox soes have a sanitise drive option. Corsair Sanitise does not work on these drives. Says the command is not supported on this drive (Nor on my newer 4Tb drive for that matter.) Dunno why. I've found Corsair toolbox to be a little less than perfect anyway.

Thanks for the input folks. Just to put in context, I'm in no big hurry to do this. Far from stressed about it. I am finding it an interesting excercise now though.