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?

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    4 hours ago

    Ah, fun fact, dd won’t actually cover all the blocks since SSDs have reserve blocks and IIRC they do rotate which ones are in use vs which are not, to even out wear