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The wear levelling on SSDs just shifts the data around and tells the host it is where the how wants it to be. The upshot - if you want to secure erase an SSD, you need to use the ATA command to do it, writing 1s then 0s doesn’t work in the same way as for rotational HDDs.
May 3, 2025, 10:36 AM
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