On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:04:51 -0700, "Jon Danniken"
wrote:

Hi guys, this is kind of a weird question, but I am purchasing a used hard
drive and plan on using Secure Erase
(http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml) on it before I format
it and install Windows on it. The application, "Secure Erase", uses the ATA
internal command that is built into the hard drive itself (as you probably
already know).

My concern is that the drive will be wiped so well that it will lose the
ability to be partitioned and formatted. I'm guessing that my concern is
not valid, but I should have a more definitive answer before I make an
expensive paperweight that looks like a hard drive.


Thanks,

Jon

What do you think yourself?! If a secure erase could be deadly for a
ssd then nobody would use the program. And a secure erase before
reusing a ssd is even advised by several people...

Massimo