I have a laptop I’m wanting to sell but I need to wipe the SSD, I only have experience wiping hard drives by overwriting the data, but after looking into it, it seems that SSD’s cannot be cleaned in the same way. I’m confused on what to do and just need some help. Is there a specific tool I can use? I downloaded ubuntu onto a flashdrive and booted it live from my laptop and tried to use hdparm to wipe the drive but I couldn’t figure it out. I’m not very knowledgeable as I’m sure you can tell, any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
If you aren’t familiar with linux, ubuntu won’t help you much.
Download the Windows installer instead, simply delete all partitions from the drive, thats what a wipe is.
That’s wipe nothing, only delete partition table.
Yes, which is what people have always referred to a wipe.