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The architecture of an SSD is much more similar to RAM than a hard drive.

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It may be because youre selling or donating your Mac, and you want all your personal information wiped clean from the drive.

Or perhaps you want to wipe an older drive that youre replacing because its too small, or because it has started to show a few errors when you test the drive.

It doesnt matter if its an internal, external, or your Macs startup drive; using these techniques you can obliterate the contents of the selected drive, making it all but impossible to recover the data.

They should not, however, be used with any SSD (Solid State Drive), including a Fusion drive, which contains an SSD element.

Depending on the choices you make in the secure erase options, there may be a single data write pass, or up to 35 passes with various data patterns to ensure that all the original data is scrambled beyond recovery.

For the most part, the steps in the process are the same for both versions of Disk Utility.

As such, we wont call out the exact differences, but be aware that what you see in the version of Disk Utility youre using may not exactly match the images in this guide.

If you need any of the information, make sure you have a backup before proceeding.

Selecting a volume will only erase the individual volume or partition you selected.

Selecting a drive will erase all volumes and partitions associated with the drive.

Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is the format normally used with the Mac OS.

This is the default erase method that just erases the catalog entries.

The first two passes use random data; the third pass uses a known data pattern.

This option meets the minimum DOE requirements for securely erasing a drive.

This method meets the DoD 5220.22 M standard for securely erasing magnetic media.

Selecting the Most Secure option can take a large amount of time, while the Single Pass of Zeros is quite a bit shorter.

We recommend the Single Pass of Zeros for any drive that youll retain control of, such as in a Mac youre giving to a family member.

The 3-pass option is a better choice when youll no longer retain possession of the drive.

Once the Utilities window opens, select Disk Utility, and then follow the instructions above to perform a Secure Erase.

Using the same secure erase techniques as those used for hard drives can be detrimental to an SSD, decreasing its operating lifetime because of the excessive number of writes involved.

Using Disk Utility to perform a simple erase (no secure erase options selected) will result in an SSD that will prove very difficult to recover meaningful data from.

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