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trollbooth1116

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I am having trouble getting the Samsung magician software to wipe my 2 SSDs because it wants to create a bootable USB but it is failing. Is there a simple way to just plug my SSD into the 2nd sata port and wipe the thing inside windows without this whole bootable USB step?

Also, there were in a raid 0. Does this mean the info on them is useless and un-recoverable?
 
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I desagree, diskpart clean all works fine, and is perfectly safe. The "lifecycle" is irrelevant on todays SSDs. Was relevant when NAND was poor quality and SSDs hat much lower TBW. One complete drive-write is nothing for recent SSDs.
This guide suggests secure erase. And that is nonsense. Secure Erase uses a password to reset all cells to 0. If the process fails for any reason (power off, loose cable, software-error, and so on) the SSD is gone forever.
Use DISKPART and be happy.
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mad-max79

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What SSD do you use, and what is the specific error you get?

The safest way to wipe a SSD is to use DISKPART in Windows

Open command prompt (Win+R > "CMD" -> Enter ) and type:

diskpart
list disk
select disk x (x is number of desired drive to wipe)
detail disk (to be sure correct drive is selected)
clean (deletes partition information, is fast, recommended before reinstalling windows)
//OR
clean all (overwrites all data wit 00 - takes time, is super safe, to be used if oyu sell the drive)
exit

there you go =)
 
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trollbooth1116

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Writing over with 0s seems like a good option but this guide suggests that this method is best for mechanical drives and not SSDs.

"CLEAN ALL writes zeroes to the entire drive and is recommended for a Mechanical Hard Drive. This will take some time to carry out as you are not just removing partitions and assigning data as “free space” like in CLEAN but physically overwriting this “free space” to effectively remove all the data from the drive. CLEAN ALL is not recommended for a SSD as data is continuously remapped across the SSD Drives surface and a cleaning algorithm like this doesn’t work correctly and may reduce the SSDs lifecycle."

http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/cleaning-up-a-drive-format-vs-secure-wipe-ssd-and-hdd/useofdiskpart/#UsingDISKPART

 
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mad-max79

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I desagree, diskpart clean all works fine, and is perfectly safe. The "lifecycle" is irrelevant on todays SSDs. Was relevant when NAND was poor quality and SSDs hat much lower TBW. One complete drive-write is nothing for recent SSDs.
This guide suggests secure erase. And that is nonsense. Secure Erase uses a password to reset all cells to 0. If the process fails for any reason (power off, loose cable, software-error, and so on) the SSD is gone forever.
Use DISKPART and be happy.
 
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