https://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/enContents © 2026 <a href="mailto:dzu@member.fsf.org">Detlev Zundel</a> Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:22:32 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/posts/linux/secure-erase-usb-ssd.html?pk_campaign=feedDetlev Zundel<div><div style="text-align:center" class="imageblock" id="org78f6733"> <div id="org0c68177" class="figure"> <p><img src="https://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/images/usb-logo.png" alt="usb-logo.png" title="NVMe logo" align="middle" width="250"> </p> </div> </div> <p> Pulling out an older SSD device from the shelf for re-use, I realize that because of the "weirdness" of SSD devices, I should reset the device beofre using it to refresh the NAND storage in it. As always, I want to do this from the Linux command line, so my first attempt was to search the man-page of <code>smartctl</code> for the string <b>erase</b>. As this yielded no results, it only took about 5 minutes from looking for a solution on the Internet to actually doing it. And this without using any LLM to do the job for me. And I even learned something new. </p> <p><a href="https://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/posts/linux/secure-erase-usb-ssd.html?pk_campaign=feed">Read more…</a> (5 min remaining to read)</p></div>debianlinuxssdusbhttps://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/posts/linux/secure-erase-usb-ssd.htmlMon, 26 Oct 2026 21:22:07 GMT