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Encrypt whole system?
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What I'm getting from this is badblocks isn't a magical tool that makes all storage devices faster and better anymore. correct? The fact that modern storage devices do that is a bit scary. I'm guessing it's firmware, no way to turn it off. And why would you, it helps you, just takes control away from you.
I wasn't really trying to wipe my storage device, but to make it faster. However you said a bunch of interesting stuff, and I thank you for that.
eh, if you don't have spinrite or something like it and don't wanna wipe your device with dd then it works well for the purpose of renewing ssds.
with the -n flag it will probably help and shouldn't cause any damage, assuming the problem is that you have an old clapped out ssd.
remember, you'll have to run it from a usb boot or something.
In that case: maybe I'll try it on the weekends, I heard it takes a while to run. Thanks for the toy :p