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'Wipe' SSD before reinstalling Linux?
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You only need to overwrite the drive with random data once. Then, as long as every OS install uses FDE, there's no need to repeat the process.
The reasons why you do the full disk wipe are:
Both of which only need to be dealt with once, so long as you don't write unencrypted data to the drive after doing the wipe.