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You will use this to create a bootable live disk.Ģ. Buy Parted Magic and Download its ISO file. If you are planning to wipe disks on a regular basis or you want to make sure the OP area is wiped, we definitely recommend Parted Magic, but otherwise, you should consider a free method like using Windows Diskpart, which we describe below.ġ. However, the utility starts at $15 (opens in new tab) and does not have a free trial period. If you don't have a free manufacturer's utility or a motherboard with a secure erase function in the BIOS, Parted Magic, a bootable Linux environment with secure erase utilities built-in, will do it for you. Parted Magic is the best universal secure erase utility around.

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How to Securely Erase Your SSD with Parted Magic SeaTools for Seagate Drives (opens in new tab).Crucial Storage Executive (opens in new tab).Sabrent Control Panel (opens in new tab).Kingston SSD Manager (opens in new tab).Western Digital Dashboard (opens in new tab).Samsung SSD Magician (opens in new tab).We haven't tested to see if all of these have secure erase features that work with all of their drives. Here's some quick links to manufacturers' software you can try. For example, we had a Kingston Rage Fury M.2 NVMe SSD but found that Kingston's software would only secure erase the company's SATA drives. The method and capabilities vary for each manufacturer's software. Note that if the drive you are wiping is the boot drive in the PC you are using to clear it, you will need a utility that can create a bootable USB erasure tool. (Image credit: Future) How to Securely Erase Your SSD with a Manufacturer's Utilityĭepending on the make and model of your SSD, the manufacturer (ex: Samsung) may have a free utility that will allow you to perform an official 'secure erase,' resetting the blocks. On our Asus ROG motherboard, the option was under Tool->Asus Secure Erase. If you can't find one, consult the user manual. Look for a secure erase option under a tools or storage menu. See our article on how to enter your BIOS if you haven't done this before.Ģ. On each brand of motherboard, the secure erase feature may have a different name and a different location in the menu structure.ġ. If your SSD is the boot drive in the PC you are wiping, the easiest way to securely erase it is through your motherboard's UEFI BIOS.

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A paid utility called Parted Magic can do secure wipes for you, but if you don't want to spend money, Windows 10 and 11 have a tool called diskpart which does a good job for free. But your particular drive or motherboard may not have these options available. These tools effectively reset your SSD to a factory state, with even the OP blocks wiped.

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Some SSD makers provide secure erase utilities for free and some motherboard BIOSes have 'secure erase' capability built in. What you need is a utility that can quickly get at all the visible data. Therefore, it's unlikely someone would be able to get to those blocks using consumer-grade recovery software (a government agency might be able to, however). However, since the over provisioned blocks are out of circulation, they won't be used (or visible to software) again until they've already been overwritten.

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A full drive overwrite wouldn't touch these blocks, which could have data in them. So there might be 5 or 10 percent of blocks that are unavailable to the OS at any given time. SSDs also use overprovisioning to extend the life of the drive and replace any blocks that fail over time.

Hard drives need multiple overwrites because magnetic media can leave remnants of data, but all SSDs have a limited number of write cycles so overwriting them multiple times is overkill. This brute-force overwrite method won't work as well for SSDs.

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