<![CDATA[Do I really have to use secure erase]]>I am giving away a shitty 128GB SSD, which was used with LUKS 2 for most of it's lifetime. As far as I know, it's good practice to secure-erase it, but I'm too lazy to reinstall the OS on it (I already did it once). Is it really needed?

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/topic/70ac51c7-abb7-4ec8-b696-86d8d33a0857/do-i-really-have-to-use-secure-eraseRSS for NodeSat, 05 Sep 2026 18:10:31 GMTWed, 19 Aug 2026 06:29:32 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Do I really have to use secure erase on Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:01:37 GMT]]>Everything that was luks encrypted is unrecoverable once you overwrite the luks header. Trying to guess the master key takes longer than the lifetime of the universe.

Just make sure that is gone and you are good. If you deleted all partitions and installed another (unencrypted) OS on the drive there is a very good chance the luks headers are gone for good.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://feddit.org/comment/14531368https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://feddit.org/comment/14531368Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:01:37 GMT