On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thursday, July 10, 2025 10:41:18 PM David Christensen wrote: > > > On 7/10/25 04:07, songbird wrote: > [...] > > Be sure to do a secure erase before you put the SSD's into service: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Erase#Secure_erase > > Why do you recommend that? Are you assuming the SSDs songbird got are used, > or do you recommend that even for new SSDs -- if so, why?
>From <https://www.zdnet.com/article/malware-found-on-new-hard-drives/>: ... Practice "safe sectors" and scan, or preferably wipe, all drives before bringing them into the ecosystem. Dont assume that a drive is going to be blank and malware free. Trust no one. Same goes for USB flash drives - you never know what's been installed on them. Jeff
