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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1936014" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>To be perfectly honest, I have the Unix commands to erase the free space on an SSD, and to erase an SSD completely. </p><p></p><p>However, I'm loath to give those commands out. (In general, you use the "secureErase freespace" command. I won't be more specific.) I can't be sure if they will work, or if they will cause damage, or what. So I'm not going to test them on one of my SSD's, and I don't want someone else possibly damaging their SSD and blaming it on me. Apple doesn't sanction doing it, so I'm not going to tell folks how to circumvent Apple's guidance. At least not until I've tried it myself and found that everything goes okay.</p><p></p><p>Someone who is a Unix guru might want to play with the commands and report back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1936014, member: 190607"] To be perfectly honest, I have the Unix commands to erase the free space on an SSD, and to erase an SSD completely. However, I'm loath to give those commands out. (In general, you use the "secureErase freespace" command. I won't be more specific.) I can't be sure if they will work, or if they will cause damage, or what. So I'm not going to test them on one of my SSD's, and I don't want someone else possibly damaging their SSD and blaming it on me. Apple doesn't sanction doing it, so I'm not going to tell folks how to circumvent Apple's guidance. At least not until I've tried it myself and found that everything goes okay. Someone who is a Unix guru might want to play with the commands and report back. [/QUOTE]
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