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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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anyone know any software i can use to zero out an SSD, i tried using dban but i think it's only for legacy BIOS now and my surface pro doesn't support that. do i just have to make a live USB and use dd?
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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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booted up the random ubuntu liveUSB i had on my ventoy and just used GNOME disks. I think when I install windows on it there's also an option to zero it out?
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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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wanna do 2 passes just to be safe, not that i had a lot of private data on this device or anything but better safe than sorry.
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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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thank the lord for SSDs btw i remember doing shit like this on SD Cards and HDDs (not exactly zero-ing out, just restoring drive images and whatnot) and it takes so fucking long, for SSDs it's like 30 minutes.
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unnick @unnick@booping.synth.download
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@autumn personally id try doing one of the first two methods on wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive/Memory_cell_clearing to avoid slightly wearing out the ssd with the writes
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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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@unnick oh awesome, this is great thanks
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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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@unnick i'm already 70% through doing the first method, but i wanted to do 2 runs so i'll do the native nvme command too
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that fucking dog that i hate @gray@merping.synth.download
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@autumn i think theres a thing on arch live isos that lets u fully wipe a drive. i just dont remember the name of it ima look it up
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that fucking dog that i hate @gray@merping.synth.download
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@autumn didnt find it buuuut i personally just do "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX" til it says "No space left blah blah". u can run it more than once (2 times in your case)
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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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@gray the tool i used to use called dban (darik's boot n nuke) used to be a specific live USB thing that you boot up on a PC and it'll do it for you without needing an OS or anything. but it doesn't work on UEFI stuff because its so old
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