Wiping an m2 drive before sale ?

tried this recently
to be fair mine was a sm951
so no official support from samsung
as classed as an oem or enterprise part
but nothing i tried on it actually deleted it beyond recovery
including using linux on it
so whatever you use test if it can be
recovered afterwards
 
Does your bios have the option?
Believe some asus
Boards at least can do it
No idea about others
Any Linux version can do it
In theory
Using nvme~cli
Or hdparm
But neither made mine unrecoverable
If it's a Samsung drive
Then Samsung magician should
Make a boot able USB as long
As its supported drive
Unlike mine
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
that doesnt do ssds
as secure erase
is different from just overwriting with zeroes etc
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I am pretty sure DBAN does more than just write zeros and ones. It employs the industry standards Like multi-pass patterns. I used to use it on my HDD and SSDs and used consumer recovery programme to see if there is anything there. Pretty robust wipes. Only down side is - it’s slow!

And not sure if it supports PCIe drives that’s the problem.

if you can wipe in windows you may want to try ccleaner (free) minitool diskwipe (similar to DBAN)
 
pc-guy said:
I am pretty sure DBAN does more than just write zeros and ones. It employs the industry standards Like multi-pass patterns. I used to use it on my HDD and SSDs and used consumer recovery programme to see if there is anything there. Pretty robust wipes. Only down side is - it’s slow!

And not sure if it supports PCIe drives that’s the problem.

if you can wipe in windows you may want to try ccleaner (free) minitool diskwipe (similar to DBAN)
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Dban does not support M2 drives
If you can manage to send the secure
Erase command to the drive
Then it's not slow as it's not over
Writing it sends a signal to all the
Cells at once which securely erases them
Hdparm or nvme cli supposedly do it
But my data was still recoverable
Afterwards
 
pc-guy said:
MY MSI motherboard has secure erase option.
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Not needed to try it, but my MSI B450 Mortar Max has the same

pc-guy said:
I am pretty sure DBAN does more than just write zeros and ones. It employs the industry standards Like multi-pass patterns. I used to use it on my HDD and SSDs and used consumer recovery programme to see if there is anything there. Pretty robust wipes. Only down side is - it’s slow!

And not sure if it supports PCIe drives that’s the problem.
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It's not that dban doesn't work, it's that it isn't designed for SSDs and due to write amplification, significantly impacts an SSDs' life span.
 
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