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Department of Defense’s “Short” specification and for numerous militaries around the globe. Some utilities support “Gutmann”-level protection with 35 passes, but three passes is enough for the U.S. The more times you overwrite your data, the less likely it is to be recovered. A utility that makes three passes overwrites your drive with ones and zeroes three separate times. Each pass signifies a complete overwrite of the data.

Drive-wipe utilities let you specify how many “passes” the software makes.

You can find this chart and more details on page 23–24 of the NIST 800–88 guidelines.With that out of the way let’s talk terminology. This chart may be useful when considering the different methods of media sanitation. I have seen some sites stating that SSD/NVMe drives are best erased using Disk Utility (which is capable of the above commands) and that the use third-party tools may make your Mac angry.

The free tool from UC San Diego may work but is outdated and did not work when tested it with an SSD aged 4 years.

Parted Magic is also widely recommended around the net (costs).

Darik’s Boot and Nuke does not support Secure Erase but recommends Blancco Disk Eraser instead (costs but free trial).

The easiest way to do perform a secure erase is by downloading the tools / toolbox from your SSD manufacturer as mentioned in this article.

Note: NVMe's do not contain the ATA prefix the commands are identified under "NVM Express Format".

Use Crypto Sanitize, Crypto Erase if supported by NVMe.

Use ATA Crypto Sanitize, Crypto Erase if supported by SSD.

The former is no longer considered relevant nor referenced by industry-leading data-erasure companies and agencies. Instead of referencing DoD 5220.22-M, reference NIST 800–88. I’ve been aware of the ATA Secure Erase method for some time, but did not know if it was implemented in any official gov-related data erasure procedures or what the new “standard” was. Recently I stumbled across an eBay seller using the DoD 5220.22-M 3 pass method to erase SSD’s… Although that is definitely not recommended, I then wondered… well, what is best practice, then?