Hey guys,

I want to shred/sanitize my SSDs. If it was a normal harddrive I would stick to ShredOS / nwipe, but since SSD’s seem to be a little more complicated, I need your advice.

When reading through some posts in the internet, many people recommend using the software from the manufacturer for sanitizing. Currently I am using the SSD SN850X from Western digital, but I also have a SSD 990 PRO from Samsung. Both manufacturers don’t seem to have a specialized linux-compatible software to perform this kind of action.

How would be your approach to shred your SSD (without physically destroying it)?

~sp3ctre

  • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
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    19 days ago

    That said, for modern fast SSD’s the performance overhead of the encryption might be a problem.

    How so? I’ve been running LUKS on modern NVMEs for years and there is just the same maybe at worst 10% hit in write/read speeds.