how do you secure erase nvme ssd?

I have a chitty Intel 600p nvme ssd as a non-boot non-OS secondary drive, and Intel's own ssd toolkit does not allow me to secure erase it.

I remember many years ago, they said ssd's have a unique way of writing data.

Would slow-formatting through Windows disk manager overwrite data enough to be unrecoverable?

There is no working tool for this crappy Intel ssd, and I just need to erase my data so I can return it.

 

Use Windoze DiskPart, clean and wipe out your disk. Run several times.

 

PartedMagic although the latest version is not free

 

yeah, i looked at partedmagic, and skipped it because it wasn't free.

anyway, i did a complete reformat through windows, and I could not recover anything from it afterwards. So that worked, but it probably wasn't the right way, as I read that nvme secure wipe applies an electric shock to wipe out the disk, and shouldn't take so long like a reformat does.

 

As yooo have Intel 600p series...
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/solid-state-drives/000006084.html
As well http://www.pcworld.com/article/2910...-or-ssd-with-one-of-these-free-utilities.html

 

with SSDs it's a bit safer, once the files are deleted, TRIM will then clear out the cells with time......garbage collection FTW so it makes it much harder to retrieve data on an SSD

 

Were you using Win 7 when using the Intel toolkit? if you are using Win8 or more recent the toolkit can't be used to wipe