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Shouldn't the ATA Secure Erase command take care of properly blanking an SSD? (Assuming that its firmware can be trusted, of course.) In practice, it's a bit m
by flyinghamster 10y ago
Shouldn't the ATA Secure Erase command take care of properly blanking an SSD? (Assuming that its firmware can be trusted, of course.)
In practice, it's a bit more complicated, though - typically the BIOS (or is the operating system?) locks out Secure Erase and you have to hot-remove the drive and reconnect it before the drive will accept it.
- bitwize 10y ago> Shouldn't the ATA Secure Erase command take care of properly blanking an SSD? (Assuming that its firmware can be trusted, of course.) It does that -- by clobbering the hw encryption key.