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[Joël Bourquard <joel.bourquard@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm, this might mean that the feature isn't supported by these SSDs. Anyway
if you want to wipe your data clean, you can just do this (assuming your
SSDs are /dev/sda to /dev/sdd):

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M
...to...
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd bs=1M

Nothing - and I mean nothing - will be left after that.

Joël
On Oct 15, 2013 2:57 AM, "Gerald Nunn" <gnunn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just an FYI to the list, I tried the secure erase but it always gave me an
> Input/Output error. I tried setting the password as well and got the same
> error, I could have been missing something obvious though so if anyone does
> manage to do it I'd appreciate it if they could post how to the list. I
> didn't have a lot of time to play with this as I needed to get my Arch
> install done before going back to work tomorrow. The Arch install went
> well, was nice a straight forward for the most part other then dealing with
> some Grub issues. I think I'm going to prefer the Arch rolling release
> model versus Ubuntu's fixed release date but time will tell.
>
> Gerald
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Gerald Nunn <gnunn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I'm looking at switching from Ubuntu to Arch this weekend and thinking
>> about doing a secure erase on the SSDs as part of the process. Has anyone
>> done a secure erase on the Z2 or Z3 and did you have any unexpected issues?
>>
>> Gerald
>>
>
>
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