{"id":346,"date":"2026-07-12T18:43:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2026-07-12T18:43:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:43:57","slug":"secure-erase-an-ssd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/2026\/07\/12\/secure-erase-an-ssd\/","title":{"rendered":"Secure Erase an SSD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can initiate a Secure Erase on an SSD but only if the drive is already password protected<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add password to the drive:<br><code>hdparm --user-master u --security-set-pass XYZZY \/dev\/sdd<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initiate the Secure Erase and wrap it with a timer:<br><code>time hdparm --user-master u --security-erase XYZZY \/dev\/sdd<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can initiate a Secure Erase on an SSD but only if the drive is already password protected Add password to the drive:hdparm &#8211;user-master u&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/2026\/07\/12\/secure-erase-an-ssd\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Secure Erase an SSD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,7],"tags":[78,30],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-linux","tag-secure-erase","tag-ssd","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}