This KB shares simple steps to wipe SSDs using ‘BitRaser Drive Eraser’ – a certified and secure software for wiping all types of Solid State Drives & Hard Drives. IT asset managers can use this DIY tool to erase the SSDs on their company premises.
Solid-State Drives (SSDs) are remarkably faster than HDDs and generally resilient to failure due to physical impact because, unlike HDDs, they don’t have any moving components. Also, SSDs are inherently complex in terms of their data storage mechanism. While erasing SSDs one needs to be careful in choosing the right method as data wiping methods that work on a hard drive, may not be suitable or deemed fit for erasing SSDs. Data-bearing SSDs carry data leakage risks when the organization resells, reallocates, or disposes of them without wiping or erasing them beforehand.
Here’s a list of the type of solid-state drives you can wipe using the tool:
Please follow these steps to start wiping one or multiple SSDs within 15 minutes.
Requirements:
You can watch this video to get visual instructions for the steps below:
Stage 1: Download BitRaser Drive Eraser ISO from the cloud [Duration: 5 minutes]
Stage 2: Prepare Bootable USB Media to Erase SSD [Duration: 5 minutes]
This step prepares a bootable USB wiping media by burning BitRaser ISO on the USB drive, as follows:
Click on the ‘START’ button and then click ‘YES’ to begin the process of writing ISO image on USB.
Note: Incase you have a Mac system, you need to download the 'balenaEtcher' utility to prepare the bootable USB. You can download the utility by clicking on the link - https://www.balena.io/etcher/ Next, follow the steps in the below KB to create BitRaser bootable USB on Mac: https://www.bitraser.com/deployment/how-to-wipe-mac.php |
After wiping the SSD (Solid State Drive), BitRaser generates tamper-proof erasure reports & certificates and uploads them automatically to the BitRaser Cloud account.
We hope this article helped you in wiping the SSDs.
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