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Don't use DBAN if you have a SSD. Instead, use Secure Erase. 1. Secure Erase will only take a few seconds. 2. DBAN is going to shorten the life of the drive.
by User8712 13y ago
Don't use DBAN if you have a SSD. Instead, use Secure Erase.
1. Secure Erase will only take a few seconds.
2. DBAN is going to shorten the life of the drive.
3. Yes, recovering data that has been overwritten is unlikely. However, DBAN is likely to not write over the data in the first place. It has no control over where the data is written. That's handled by the SSD controller. DBAN will only think it wrote zeros over the entire drive, while not actually doing so.
- voltagex_ 13y agoRight! I've been using spinning rust drives for longer than I've been using SSDs - thanks for the tip.