![]() According to Samsung Magician, my 950 Pro has only written 9.4TB of data, whereas according to Samsung, the drive is rated up to 400 TB's written. I've heard a lot of people claim that "you shouldn't zero-fill/random-data fill an ssd". Used Samsung Magician's performance optimization daily (which I assume simply runs the trim command) Filled the drive completely with random unimportant pictures, programs, games, etc. Used a bootable windows installer to format the drive (found that the secure erase utility missed the system reserved partition which happened to be on an HDD for some reason (happened a while ago). ![]() ran Samsung's secure erase utility via bootable drive once (not sure if it worked, it finished in minutes, which makes it seem a little sketchy. I've found quite a bit of information which is often contradictory to other articles. I know that one way would be to ground it and let it sit for like a year, which would rot the data away, but that takes way too long. I want it erased as securely as possible (just short of cutting it with a pair of branch snippers) before I sell it to some random stranger (just assume he is a professional scammer/identity thief) l. ![]() However, I've read that securely erasing SSD's can be troubling. I'm thinking of upgrading 950 Pro 512 GB NVMe SSD to a larger one (no dual m.2 for me).
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