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Old Jul 30, 2013 | 8:00 am
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Originally Posted by chx1975
If you pick a used one, make sure the seller properly erases them with http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/deta...cID=MIGR-68369 this utility (nope, format, fdisk etc is not going to cut it) cos you'll hard time doing it but other than that, a used SSD is most likely fine.
Not sure I understand this.

I've used plenty of used HDD's, and the usual format etc. routines work just fine.

Is there something about an SSD that makes these ineffective?

OK - just looked at the link. I'm completely at sea here. Are all SSD'a equipped with a crypto key? What don't I know? Too general - we don't have that much time.

But seriously - what's going on? I don't use an SSD, but we had them in various industrial computers and no one ever mentioned anything about crypto.
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