At what point to secure erase?

SSDLife says my drive has had 1.7TB written to it so far. Health is still at 100%. Considering that should I even bother secureerasing to restore performance that may not be lost. Benchmark still looks fine as it was at new.

 

What SSD are we talking about here?

If a SF based one, SE'ing will do nothing for LTT.

If you're running Win7 (clean install) with the proper IRST 10.6 drivers, then there should be no performance loss that a SE will recover.

SE should not be based on how many TB's have been written, it should be because you're updating the firmware, re-installing the system, or, your benchmarks of choice are going down (and down, and down...).

Would you want to post your results with this (newer) benchmark?

See:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sol...h-storage/599219-anvil-storage-utilities.html


This one has the ability to benchmark both read and write threaded IO scenarios (Threaded Mixed IO, under the Benchmarks 'tab').

 

It's the Intel 310 in my sig which is basically a X25-M. I'm currently using 10.1.0.1008 since that's the current Lenovo version. What was the major change in 10.6? Release notes only discusses fixes.

I'll be reinstalling the OS, so I'm wondering if it's worth secure erasing even if I'll be using 10.6 drivers?

Will run the Anvil benchmark and post in that thread.

 

With a reinstall being considered anyways, I would SE just before I put on a fresh copy of Win7 (make sure you download the SP1 integrated version too).

The X25-M (G2?) does benefit from SE if I remember correctly.

As for the IRST version - yeah, I would probably stick with the official Lenovo version (latest).

But, I would still test on the current build with the 10.6 drivers.

See:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?lang=eng&DwnldID=20215


I'll be looking for your Anvil scores. Thanks.