Friday, June 19, 2015

SSD - Do you Secure Erase when you do an clean install?

Every couple of months i do a clean install using my retail Win8.1 Home and i use my ssd tool to secure erase my ssd, it only takes about 10 seconds, you get a warning that your ssd might freeze and you will have to remove the ssd and re-connect, but i have done an secure erase and have not had this problem.

A secure erase sets all the ssd memory cells to zero, I do this so the wear leveling of the ssd can use the seldom written too parts of the ssd like partitions and parts of the os that do...

SSD - Do you Secure Erase when you do an clean install?

SSD - Do you Secure Erase when you do an clean install?

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