dd vs. secure-erase for reconditiong SSDs

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Published on 2010-06-03T09:24:56Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 9:26 UTC
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Does writing zeros to an entire ssd (dd if=/dev/zero of/dev/sdX) give the same performance restoring effect that you get from a "secure erase", or does secure erase do something else as well?

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