Re: [H] SSD-wondering?
Greg, Thanks again for your expertise. I will go to Intel/and/or Crucial for this MX100/128GB SSD. To dateI have installed 3 SSD's. 2 were Samsung 840 Pro's. Bothwent very well. This 'try' was with a Crucial MX100/128GB SSD my OB tried on his old PC. It did not work, but in fairness, he is not a serious new tech adopter. The SSD is clearly recognized in the very old ASUS BIOS (1102-last). It tries to boot Windows 7pro-64 and Windows 8.1pro-64. Windows fails with error code 0xc225. Research seems to point to 'hdw problem!'. Well Duh! Unplug SSD and re-plug the old EM HDD (WXP) and it does NOT BOOT either. Hmm. Perhaps the m/b gave up the ghost? The cpu (c2d) does have one dead coreand only 2GB of ram. 2 Strikes!! I'll persue Intel's tools and have a look/see if/when I can get them to run on the platform. In the end, this platform will get gutted and rebuilt with an Asus Z77 m/b(AHCI default, EUFI BIOS, etc.) I think I'd like to spend the time to find out if this Crucial SSD is DEAD, or, still usable. Truly curious. Duncan On 07/25/2014 10:08, Greg Sevart wrote: It's also ineffective--due to wear-leveling and reserved area/overprovisioning, traditional utilities that write random or 0s to a disk cannot be considered secure. For an SSD, you need to do a Secure Erase. Secure Erase is an ATA standard whereby the drive performs a complete wipe using a manufacturer-defined internal mechanism. There are a few options here: you can use Samsung and Intel's SSD utilities (supported on some operating systems and non-boot drives only), use any Linux LiveCD and run the hdparm commands manually, or use Parted Magic ($5--bootable image) which wraps it in a nice GUI. I do the latter. The good news is that Secure Erase on an SSD only takes a minute or two. -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of joeu...@chronic.org Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 7:38 AM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] SSD-wondering? I would try the manufacturers website, I guess. I know with a regular HDD you'd have to write 0 & 1's (for example) over & over again. This would be wasteful on a SSD as you have a limited numbers of access before it will go "bad". Interesting question. Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..." Original Message Subject: [H] SSD-wondering? From: DSinc Date: Thu, July 24, 2014 3:43 pm To: HWG Is there any program/app available that may allow me to ERASE an ssd installed on my PC I may accept a 'FORMAT' program/app, but I wish to ensure that my ssd is totally blank. Like without ANY history remaining on it. Thank you, Duncan
Re: [H] SSD-wondering?
It's also ineffective--due to wear-leveling and reserved area/overprovisioning, traditional utilities that write random or 0s to a disk cannot be considered secure. For an SSD, you need to do a Secure Erase. Secure Erase is an ATA standard whereby the drive performs a complete wipe using a manufacturer-defined internal mechanism. There are a few options here: you can use Samsung and Intel's SSD utilities (supported on some operating systems and non-boot drives only), use any Linux LiveCD and run the hdparm commands manually, or use Parted Magic ($5--bootable image) which wraps it in a nice GUI. I do the latter. The good news is that Secure Erase on an SSD only takes a minute or two. -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of joeu...@chronic.org Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 7:38 AM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] SSD-wondering? I would try the manufacturers website, I guess. I know with a regular HDD you'd have to write 0 & 1's (for example) over & over again. This would be wasteful on a SSD as you have a limited numbers of access before it will go "bad". Interesting question. Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..." > ---- Original Message > Subject: [H] SSD-wondering? > From: DSinc > Date: Thu, July 24, 2014 3:43 pm > To: HWG > > > Is there any program/app available that may allow me to ERASE an ssd > installed on my PC > > I may accept a 'FORMAT' program/app, but I wish to ensure that my ssd > is totally blank. > Like without ANY history remaining on it. > Thank you, > Duncan
Re: [H] SSD-wondering?
I would try the manufacturers website, I guess. I know with a regular HDD you'd have to write 0 & 1's (for example) over & over again. This would be wasteful on a SSD as you have a limited numbers of access before it will go "bad". Interesting question. Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..." > ---- Original Message > Subject: [H] SSD-wondering? > From: DSinc > Date: Thu, July 24, 2014 3:43 pm > To: HWG > > > Is there any program/app available that may allow me to ERASE an ssd > installed on my > PC > > I may accept a 'FORMAT' program/app, but I wish to ensure that my ssd is > totally blank. > Like without ANY history remaining on it. > Thank you, > Duncan
[H] SSD-wondering?
Is there any program/app available that may allow me to ERASE an ssd installed on my PC I may accept a 'FORMAT' program/app, but I wish to ensure that my ssd is totally blank. Like without ANY history remaining on it. Thank you, Duncan
