Wiping an m2 drive before sale ?

digitaldreams · 14 Feb 2020 at 20:57

Thinking of a bootable usb key image. What is good for the job ?

Thanks in advance..

deuse · 15 Feb 2020 at 09:55

digitaldreams said:
Thinking of a bootable usb key image. What is good for the job ?

Thanks in advance..

The makers software should do it.

PapaLazaru · 15 Feb 2020 at 19:11

C Cleaner.

Mcnumpty2323 · 15 Feb 2020 at 19:15

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

digitaldreams · 18 Feb 2020 at 16:05

Anyone ?

Something I can boot from a USB stick to securely wipe my m2 drive...

Mcnumpty2323 · 18 Feb 2020 at 16:39

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

Mr Plow · 18 Feb 2020 at 23:40

digitaldreams said:
Anyone ?

Something I can boot from a USB stick to securely wipe my m2 drive...

Parted Magic will do this for you mate.

https://partedmagic.com/

Safetytrousers · 19 Feb 2020 at 00:07

Darik's Boot and Nuke. (DBAN)

Mcnumpty2323 · 19 Feb 2020 at 00:16

Safetytrousers said:
Darik's Boot and Nuke. (DBAN)

that doesnt do ssds
as secure erase
is different from just overwriting with zeroes etc

SonicSW20 · 19 Feb 2020 at 00:31

Mr Plow said:
Parted Magic will do this for you mate.

https://partedmagic.com/

As recommended by Crucial:
https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/methods-for-erasing-an-ssd

digitaldreams · 19 Feb 2020 at 14:41

Mr Plow said:
Parted Magic will do this for you mate.

https://partedmagic.com/

Thanks I'll give it a go...

jigger · 1 Mar 2020 at 21:47

Arconis true image.

pc-guy · 3 Mar 2020 at 23:50

MY MSI motherboard has secure erase option.

pc-guy · 3 Mar 2020 at 23:55

Mcnumpty2323 said:
that doesnt do ssds
as secure erase
is different from just overwriting with zeroes etc

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)

Mcnumpty2323 · 4 Mar 2020 at 01:08

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)

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

Armageus · 4 Mar 2020 at 07:07

pc-guy said:
MY MSI motherboard has secure erase option.

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.

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.