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Comment by IAmLiterallyAB

To maximize device performance when wiping a drive to use for something else, I use nvme format with --ses=1.

Which in theory should free all of the blocks on the flash.

Really hard to find good documentation on this stuff. Doesn't help that 95% of internet articles just say "overwrite with zeroes" which is useless advice

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