Formatting an intel SSD?

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With normal hard drives all I did was run Boot and Nuke to get a clean drive. Is there any similar way to do this with SSDs? I know boot and nuke runs by placing random pieces of data. I think that that's a bad thing to do with SSDs? :confused:
 
Formatting a drive and wiping it with DBAN are two different things.

I wouldn't bother DBAN'ing any drive unless I was prepping it to sell.
 
Secure Erase. http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1475561 And yes, it does work on mechanical hard drives as well.

That's only to overwrite any remaining data on a HDD or to erase all blocks on a SSD. But you don't need to do either of those to just format or repartition the drive, as Torquemada said (though a Secure Erase will make the SSD faster due to having all blocks clean and ready for an immediate write).
 
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