Show us your SSD performance

Wishmaster, I hope you are right. We'll see next time I do a Secure Erase. No time soon, I hope.

Great information, thanks everyone.

Haven't used the msachi driver so was curious.
Will be nice to see if that is what is causing issues with secure erase.

Forgive me for what may seem a stupid question long after the fact, but what is the big need for Secure Erase to begin with?

My understanding is that SSDs pose an inherent security risk in that they are quite easy to "unformat", meaning that you'd want a sure 'nuff deletion of all your data before you sold one, but for a standard wipe-and-reload, what's the need? Is it performance related?

Yes, performance related usaually. Secure erase is supposed to return the drive back to factory condition. I have done several and yes it helps performance. But performance is usually pretty good without secure erase. I just usually do it when I reinstall windows. With me messing with the computer that is quite often. I told my sister the other night that the only thing I am really good at is installing windows. That's because I have a lot of experience.

Kip said he uses this method:

SSD install questions

A Guy

A Guy said:

Kip said he uses this method:

SSD install questions

A Guy

Those links are to Parted Magic which we tried on Hoppys drive without success. I use Parted Magic because it is usually easier than the toolbox.

BTW: that is an excellent program to have in your toolbox. It is a linux based program with about 10-12 different programs on it, like gparted, clonzilla, hd erase (for SE) and several others. I have used it often.

essenbe said:

Yes, performance related usually. Secure erase is supposed to return the drive back to factory condition. I have done several and yes it helps performance. But performance is usually pretty good without secure erase. I just usually do it when I reinstall windows. With me messing with the computer that is quite often. I told my sister the other night that the only thing I am really good at is installing windows. That's because I have a lot of experience.

Thanks. :)

A Guy, how much do you know about 'over provisioning'? I read on Intels forum that you can get better performance by doing that. Just wonder what you know. I have never tried it.

profdlp said:

essenbe said:

Yes, performance related usually. Secure erase is supposed to return the drive back to factory condition. I have done several and yes it helps performance. But performance is usually pretty good without secure erase. I just usually do it when I reinstall windows. With me messing with the computer that is quite often. I told my sister the other night that the only thing I am really good at is installing windows. That's because I have a lot of experience.

Thanks. :)

At your service, Sir.