Over on TidBITS Talk, user Lucas043 posed a question that prompted a fascinating discussion. Lucas043 has a Samsung Portable T7 SSD being used for backup. The SSD has intermittent access problems and ...

I'm looking for a Windows program that can run the ATA Secure Erase command for any SSD that supports it. I have Intel, Samsung, Crucial, Sandisk, etc. drives, and they all require their own ...

In preparation for a clean Windows install, I ran a secure erase on my smaller SSD, a Samsung 830, 256 GB, using Samsung's utility. During the process, the software reported the target SSD was frozen.