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Shredding my SSDs (NVMe) under linux?
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this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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So much bad advice in here relating to NVME's.
Any NVME worth it's salt these days is an OPAL adhering self encrypting capable drive for data storage.
This means in Linux you simply install nvme-cli, then do a mode 2 crypto erase and the crypto key is dropped and all data on the drive becomes unreadable.
Y'all could stand to get with the times a bit more and learn about what NVME's actually bring to the table
https://tinyapps.org/docs/nvme-secure-erase.html
For drives with it disabled, mode 1 wipe will have the controller fill all regions with meaningless data to wipe it.