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?

  • SteveTech@aussie.zone
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    1 day ago

    What type of SSD? NVMe usually has a special instruction which will reset each whole NAND chip, and usually takes a few seconds. I think SATA does as well, but it’s not commonly supported.