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  • Axum@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoLinux@lemmy.mlShredding my SSDs (NVMe) under linux?
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    14 days ago

    So much bad advice in here relating to NVME’s.

    Any NVME worth it’s salt these days is an OPAL adhering self encrypting capable drive for data storage.

    This means in Linux you simply install nvme-cli, then do a mode 2 crypto erase and the crypto key is dropped and all data on the drive becomes unreadable.

    Y’all could stand to get with the times a bit more and learn about what NVME’s actually bring to the table

    https://tinyapps.org/docs/nvme-secure-erase.html

    For drives with it disabled, mode 1 wipe will have the controller fill all regions with meaningless data to wipe it.















  • Not super ideal for a server as far as maintenance and uptime to have unexpected, frequent restarts

    This is such a weird take given that 99.9% of people here are just running this on their home servers which aren’t dictated by a SLA, so it’s not like people need to worry about reboots. Just reboot once a month unless there’s some odd CVE you need to hit sooner than later.