I am giving away a shitty 128GB SSD, which was used with LUKS 2 for most of it’s lifetime. As far as I know, it’s good practice to secure-erase it, but I’m too lazy to reinstall the OS on it (I already did it once). Is it really needed?
I am giving away a shitty 128GB SSD, which was used with LUKS 2 for most of it’s lifetime. As far as I know, it’s good practice to secure-erase it, but I’m too lazy to reinstall the OS on it (I already did it once). Is it really needed?
I’m assuming when you “reinstalled the OS” you just repartitioned the drive and installed normally without encryption for the person? If that’s the case then all your old data is encrypted and will be unrecoverable without your password and the LUKS header.
If however you reinstalled the OS within the already made LUKS partition and are giving them the password (for some reason) then yeah, you wanna secure erase it.
If you were selling on eBay or something I would still recommend a secure erase (they’re really quick on SSDs)
Yep, he’ll probably sell it in a laptop I put it in. I’m kinda skeptical about an ONDA laptop with a 4-core Celeron selling. Might as well keep it, give it away or something.
Yes, I have to complain about this laptop. It’s worth less than just the SSD.