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If it is failing and being replaced, what is the worry. Just pull the failing drive and beat with a hammer, the data will not be recoverable after that.
Best way to wipe data partition on SSD?
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The most secure way to do it is to smash, burn, blow-up, or mutilate the drive.
The next best is to secure wipe - writing all 1/0 to entire drive.
But in your case you could do it a more primitive way: Delete everything in the partitions you want to secure, then copy and write some very big files over and over until you get the message that there is no more space. Then delete those files. You should only need to do this once for minimal security.
This can be quite tedious on large drives, however.
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Another thought -
There's an option to reset my PC in the Dell utilities which says it will reset my PC to it's original factory setup.
Would this be the most straightforward way to get rid of eveything on the SSD?
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I am not sure if that dell thing just does a quick format and apply. Never used it. Maybe tinternet will reveal what is does.
various data recovery programs advertise that they can retrieve some data after dell reset.
I suppose you could do DEll reset and then run one of the wipe free space things available in ccleaner, glary utilities, most partition managers and so on. They will still give the ssd a thrashing
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