Thus, they treat your SSD as a normal hard drive writing zeros everywhere. The typical process will be downloading the CD/USB, booting from the media, running the installer and after several next-clicks you have to choose where to install it.Īs you can see from the print-screen above, even the the most user-friendly distributions like Ubuntu, have no Secure Erase option. Then, something happens and you decide that this distro is not suitable for you, so you want to replace it. Okay, suppose you have Slackware or whatever Linux distro you like. Thus, you need to be well-informed about whether you should enable or not certain “hacks” to your Linux distribution. The most common mistake that new SSD users tend to make is installing a new Linux distro or replacing the current one without secure erase it first. If you are careless enough, then your brand-new Vertex 4 SSD will probably degrade its perforamance and kiss its speed goodbye. In other words, this hell-of-a-speed data flow comes with a price – its limited lifespan.

This means huge read/write transfer rate for your data ( eg OCZ Revodrive3 X2 operates at ~900mb/s, while a typical WD Green at 110mb/s max).īefore you crack a big smile, let me remind you what Ben Parker said to Peter: “ With Great Power comes Great Responsibility”. For those who have never heard of the SSD technology, here is a brief explanation: The SSD ( Solid State Drive) is another storage unit for your computer, similar to your hard drive – but zillions times faster! Yes sir, not mechanical components here, so if you look under the hood of your SSD, you won’t find any magnetic head & platters, but just a plain PCB board. The SSD drives have already hit the market and their arena is shaping up to be fierce with a lot of players.

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