Originally posted by: Fur4x
there is a tool from intel that does just that, mark all the blocks as available and restore the controller to default task. normal format would hirt the life lenght of my drive
Originally posted by: coolVariable
the benefit of doing this is obviously the pre-steadystate performance. (It's faster writing to an empty MLC cell)
But it also degrades the life of the SSD.
Originally posted by: taltamir
Originally posted by: coolVariable
the benefit of doing this is obviously the pre-steadystate performance. (It's faster writing to an empty MLC cell)
But it also degrades the life of the SSD.
intel and some other SSD companies intentionally fills the drive up once in order to avoid a bunch of RMAs for drives that "worked fine for a couple of weeks and then suddenly became a lot slower"..
Originally posted by: Fur4x
I have seen on multiple web site, and in Anandtech Intel X25-M SSD review that we can perform a secure erase of the drive to revert it back to factory default (Mark all the blocks as available). How can i perform that secure erase ?
Originally posted by: Aberforth
I have the source code to do this but I can't share it because of copyright issues, but there is an alternative solution to this problem, just encrypt the volume using bitlocker or PGP as it makes data recover very difficult, use SHA 256 or 512 digest with AES 256 cipher, remember to backup your private keys.