Wiping a Hard Drive?

[Kelemvor]

Howdy,

So, back in the day we would always use DBAN to wipe hard drives. I know that DBAN doesn't work with SSDs so for those I'd use Parted Magic.

My question is, is there any current tool that can do both? Or if not, is there a way to put both DBAN and PM on a single flash drive along with some sort of boot menu so I can use one flash drive regardless of what I'm wiping?

Thanks!

 

[EXCellR8]

GParted

 

[corkyg]

You can also securely erase an SSD by simply deleting the data on SSD and then run a TRIM command on the drive. When data is deleted on an SSD the memory cells are set to zeros. Issuing the TRIM command resets the cells to ones which marks the cells as free for writes again. Performing an erase in this manner limits the amount of writes to the SSD memory cells to the minimum in erasing data and TRIM will reclaim the erased memory cells which optimizes drive performance.