topic Securely Erase SSD Solid State Drive NetApp Disks in Network and Storage Protocols

Securely Erase SSD Solid State Drive NetApp Disks

djh — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:22:48 GMT

Is it possible to securely erase an SSD NetApp disk? We re-use spinning disks and sanitise them using the disk sanitisation process, however is there a way to securely sanitise an SSD disk or do they have to be crushed?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Securely Erase SSD Solid State Drive NetApp Disks

Sahana — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 03:39:46 GMT

Hi,

Please refer KB https://kb.netapp.com/support/s/article/ka11A00000016J8/data-ontap-disk-sanitize-feature-has-certain-limitations-with-ssd

Refer How disk sanitization works on page 19 in the link :https://library.netapp.com/ecm/ecm_download_file/ECMP1636022

Re: Securely Erase SSD Solid State Drive NetApp Disks

djh — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:12:14 GMT

Thanks! - So it looks like most SSD's can be sanitised and re-used 🙂