You don't have to, but a secure erase will return performance, depending on the number of writes it has accumulated, it will start to have a diminishing affect as the SSD gets higher number of writes.
If it's still performing well for you, then don't worry about any benchmarks or the WEI score, leave it as it is.
That is a really nice SSD, that's a great score.
Any noticeable performance increase over the other SSDs you have?
My sister's laptop with 128 GB SSD:
Code:Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Windows\system32>winsat disk -v Windows System Assessment Tool > Command Line 'winsat disk -v' > DWM running... leaving it on > System processor power policy saved and set to 'max performance' > Running: Feature Enumeration '' > Gathering System Information > Operating System : 6.1 Build-7601 > Processor : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2. 20GHz > TSC Frequency : 0 > Number of Processors : 1 > Number of Cores : 4 > Number of CPUs : 8 > Number of Cores per Processor : 4 > Number of CPUs Per Core : 2 > Cores have logical CPUs : YES > L1 Cache and line Size : 32768 64 > L2 Cache and line Size : 262144 64 > Total physical mem available to the OS : 7.94 GB (8,531,066,880 bytes) > Adapter Description : Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000 > Adapter Manufacturer : NVIDIA > Adapter Driver Version : 9.18.13.697 > Adapter Driver Date (yy/mm/dd) : 2012\10\2 > Has DX9 or better : Yes > Has Pixel shader 2.0 or better : Yes > Has LDDM Driver : Yes > Dedicated (local) video memory : 64MB > System memory dedicated as video memory : 0MB > System memory shared as video memory : 1632MB > Primary Monitor Size : 1366 X 768 (1049088 total pixels) > WinSAT is Official : Yes > Run Time 00:00:00.00 > Running: Storage Assessment '-seq -read -n 0' Mode Flags = 0x%08x Disk Number = 0 Iterations = 1 IO Count = 256 Sequential IO Size = 65536 Random IO Size = 16384 Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[0] - 485.738111 MB/s Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[1] - 511.131829 MB/s Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[2] - 514.992237 MB/s Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[3] - 448.251559 MB/s Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[4] - 446.652099 MB/s Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[5] - 507.411427 MB/s Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[6] - 510.545974 MB/s Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[7] - 512.928171 MB/s Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[8] - 512.943513 MB/s Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[9] - 514.590449 MB/s Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[10] - 517.861513 MB/s Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[11] - 512.529595 MB/s > Run Time 00:00:02.43 > Running: Storage Assessment '-ran -read -n 0' Mode Flags = 0x%08x Disk Number = 0 Iterations = 1 IO Count = 1000 Sequential IO Size = 65536 Random IO Size = 16384 Run[1] Type[0x01000002] Zone[0] - 210.969240 MB/s > Run Time 00:00:00.23 > Running: Storage Assessment '-scen 2009 -drive C:' Mode Flags = 0x%08x Disk Number = 0 Iterations = 1 IO Count = 9000 Sequential IO Size = 65536 Random IO Size = 16384 Requesting a file of size 1073741824 located at physical offset 0xeeae00 200. Expected number of IOs: 9000 Number of IOs in trace file:9223 > Run Time 00:00:51.65 > Running: Storage Assessment '-seq -write -drive C:' Mode Flags = 0x%08x Disk Number = 0 Iterations = 8 IO Count = 1000 Sequential IO Size = 65536 Random IO Size = 16384 Requesting a file of size 65536000 located at physical offset 0x6500200. Run[1] Type[0x02000001] Zone[0] - 488.467719 MB/s Run[2] Type[0x02000001] Zone[0] - 489.943199 MB/s Run[3] Type[0x02000001] Zone[0] - 444.684874 MB/s Run[4] Type[0x02000001] Zone[0] - 490.477705 MB/s Run[5] Type[0x02000001] Zone[0] - 493.107927 MB/s Run[6] Type[0x02000001] Zone[0] - 490.975592 MB/s Run[7] Type[0x02000001] Zone[0] - 489.654906 MB/s Run[8] Type[0x02000001] Zone[0] - 490.813713 MB/s > Run Time 00:00:02.82 > Running: Storage Assessment '-flush -drive C: -seq' Mode Flags = 0x%08x Disk Number = 0 Iterations = 1 IO Count = 2501 Sequential IO Size = 65536 Random IO Size = 16384 Requesting a file of size 67108864 located at physical offset 0xeeae0020 0. Expected number of IOs: 2501 Number of IOs in trace file:2531 > Run Time 00:00:01.54 > Running: Storage Assessment '-flush -drive C: -ran' Mode Flags = 0x%08x Disk Number = 0 Iterations = 1 IO Count = 2501 Sequential IO Size = 65536 Random IO Size = 16384 Requesting a file of size 67108864 located at physical offset 0xeeae0020 0. Expected number of IOs: 2501 Number of IOs in trace file:2521 > Run Time 00:00:00.62 > Running: Storage Assessment '-hybrid -ran -read -n 0 -ransize 4096' Mode Flags = 0x%08x Disk Number = 0 Iterations = 1 IO Count = 1000 Sequential IO Size = 65536 Random IO Size = 4096 NV Cache not present. > Run Time 00:00:00.00 > Running: Storage Assessment '-hybrid -ran -read -n 0 -ransize 16384' Mode Flags = 0x%08x Disk Number = 0 Iterations = 1 IO Count = 1000 Sequential IO Size = 65536 Random IO Size = 16384 NV Cache not present. > Run Time 00:00:00.02 > Disk Sequential 64.0 Read 509.20 MB/s 7.9 > Disk Random 16.0 Read 253.01 MB/s 7.9 > Responsiveness: Average IO Rate 0.43 ms/IO 7.9 > Responsiveness: Grouped IOs 6.39 units 7.8 > Responsiveness: Long IOs 0.82 units 7.9 > Responsiveness: Overall 5.25 units 7.9 > Responsiveness: PenaltyFactor 0.0 > Disk Sequential 64.0 Write 494.49 MB/s 7.9 > Average Read Time with Sequential Writes 0.745 ms 7.8 > Latency: 95th Percentile 2.067 ms 7.6 > Latency: Maximum 31.207 ms 7.9 > Average Read Time with Random Writes 0.220 ms 7.9 > Total Run Time 00:01:00.14 > The System processor power policy was restored C:\Windows\system32>
Just for fun, this is my new Mushkin 64GB USB3 score! This is the first USB flash drive I ever owned that can slap a traditional hard drive badly! This thing is amazingly fast! It came with FAT 32. Quickly formated to ExFAT and this is the result:
Here's a 64GB USB 3 stick, NTFS.
Wolfgang I was going to get ATTO but they have a long registration form to download it, so I passed.
This is where I got my ATTO> ATTO Disk Benchmark Download - Softpedia
US, UK and RO download of free version. Zip file on right side of page.
Just download and unzip.
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