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by rkagerer 708 days ago
Format, then sdelete x 10 passes writing random data, then secure erase for good measure, will take care of it for 99% of use cases out there.
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Sure, if you don't need to meet any compliance standards and your threat model is pretty relaxed, this is likely okay.

But if your threat model is that relaxed, you can just encrypt the whole drive, toss the key, and then format the device. This would likely be quicker than doing 10x write passes.

As a note, write passes are really only good for HDDs due to wear-leveling algorithms in every SSD.