Hi all,
I'd like to have an answer on a secure FreeBSD way to erase
SSDs before giving these away to someone for reusing it.
Is the following enough to protect confidential data
previously stored there?
1) dd : overwriting with random bits (complete capacity)
2) gpart create
3) gpart add
r if you are still worried that some controller optimization is
> interfering
> with and actual memory location overwrite. Go old school with dd and
> write
> a file of random to the existing file system until it runs out of
> space.
> dd if=/dev/urandon of=garbagetxtfile.txt
