Hey guys,

I want to shred/sanitize my SSDs. If it was a normal harddrive I would stick to ShredOS / nwipe, but since SSD’s seem to be a little more complicated, I need your advice.

When reading through some posts in the internet, many people recommend using the software from the manufacturer for sanitizing. Currently I am using the SSD SN850X from Western digital, but I also have a SSD 990 PRO from Samsung. Both manufacturers don’t seem to have a specialized linux-compatible software to perform this kind of action.

How would be your approach to shred your SSD (without physically destroying it)?

~sp3ctre

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    22 hours ago

    Preferably all zeroes, possibly random data or a fixed string. Certainly not anything readable.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      53·
      22 hours ago

      No, you don’t want all zeroesz, you want random data.

      Within Linux you can quite easily do this yourself too