SSD Secure Sanitation/Deletion

[$immond$]

I am selling my SSD and possibly upgrading. I have used DBAN in the past for wiping data but I keep issues/errors in attempts to sanitize my SSD. I hear there are known issues using DBAN to wipe data off SSD's.

Can anyone recommend a good program for wiping data off SSD's, free or not expensive and no I am not encrypting my drive.

 

[Batou1986]

a full format should do fine its not like magnetic storage where the bits need to be overwritten multiple times to ensure it cant be recovered

 

[W1zzard]

the correct way is to perform a sata security erase.

if you can handle linux, i found hdparm the easiest way because windows disables the security commands when the drive is "connected" to the os (so that a virus can't execute it)