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<blockquote data-quote="Digerati" data-source="post: 666622" data-attributes="member: 59833">First, my apologies to the OP, the staff, and fellow readers for my part in the side distractions.For people getting rid of an old SSD, it is the &quot;later&quot; part that may be a worry - or cause uncertainty. And again, that assumes TRIM is enabled, or has not been disabled for some reason. It is not a matter of the user being important or not. It is all about the data and how important it is to the user - or if it may be of value to a bad guy. Do they have a document on there that has their social security number or bank account? Their insurance, medical or tax records? Sensitive work documents? Personal contacts?There are badguys and opportunists (and neighbor whizkids), who do nothing but gather up old drives to see if there is any old, usable personal data on them they can exploit for some personal gain. So if you are getting rid of an old drive, it is not being overly paranoid to ensure nothing is left behind. If you are responsible for maintaining other users computers either as part of your job, or as the family computer guy, it is just being prudent to ensure nothing is left behind. In the case of the OP and this thread, he is receiving a &quot;used&quot; SSD. When you receive a used drive, you must not assume it does not contain malicious code - even if you know where it came from.This is especially true with modern SSDs. There is the obvious reason of no moving parts. But also, modern SSDs just are not susceptible to the write limits of first generation SSDs. This is one reason why the Samsung 850 PRO 2TB SSD is warrantied for 10 years and 450 TBW (terabytes written). That is an astronomical amount of writes. And without &quot;harming&quot; the drive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Digerati, post: 666622, member: 59833"] First, my apologies to the OP, the staff, and fellow readers for my part in the side distractions. For people getting rid of an old SSD, it is the "later" part that may be a worry - or cause uncertainty. And again, that assumes TRIM is enabled, or has not been disabled for some reason. It is not a matter of the user being important or not. It is all about the data and how important it is to the user - or if it may be of value to a bad guy. Do they have a document on there that has their social security number or bank account? Their insurance, medical or tax records? Sensitive work documents? Personal contacts? There are badguys and opportunists (and neighbor whizkids), who do nothing but gather up old drives to see if there is any old, usable personal data on them they can exploit for some personal gain. So if you are getting rid of an old drive, it is not being overly paranoid to ensure nothing is left behind. If you are responsible for maintaining other users computers either as part of your job, or as the family computer guy, it is just being prudent to ensure nothing is left behind. In the case of the OP and this thread, he is [U]receiving[/U] a "used" SSD. When you receive a used drive, you must not assume it does not contain malicious code - even if you know where it came from. This is especially true with modern SSDs. There is the obvious reason of no moving parts. But also, modern SSDs just are not susceptible to the write limits of first generation SSDs. This is one reason why the Samsung 850 PRO 2TB SSD is warrantied for 10 years and 450 TBW (terabytes written). That is an astronomical amount of writes. And without "harming" the drive. [/QUOTE]

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