When we’re talking SSDs, we’re not talking a fee megabytes of relocated sectors. We’re talking numbers between 4½-560GB of spare capacity, almost guaranteed to be used, especially if you start filling up the drive.
If you’re assuming nobody is going to dig through the SSD, save yourself some time and issue a secure erase/crypto erase command and let the firmware figure it out. It’s faster and more reliable. If you have TRIM enabled (should be on by default on most operating systems), you may even be able to get away with simply clearing the recycling bin.
When we’re talking SSDs, we’re not talking a fee megabytes of relocated sectors. We’re talking numbers between 4½-560GB of spare capacity, almost guaranteed to be used, especially if you start filling up the drive.
If you’re assuming nobody is going to dig through the SSD, save yourself some time and issue a secure erase/crypto erase command and let the firmware figure it out. It’s faster and more reliable. If you have TRIM enabled (should be on by default on most operating systems), you may even be able to get away with simply clearing the recycling bin.