Hello, short question: is it a safe bet to use the Asus Secure Erase feature I have in my BIOS for a Samsung 870 QVO SSD drive? I'm trying to basically reset the drive to factory default.
I have tried the Samsung Magician software to make a bootable USB drive and use their secure erase solution, but I cannot get the damn thing to boot from my BIOS (I have tried just about everything.) So I find myself looking at my BIOS's "built-in" secure erase feature as my only solution. Asus says some SSDs are incompatible and to look online for a list first - yet I cannot find said list anywhere.
My motherboard is a Asus Prime Z390-A if that helps. I also updated said motherboard to latest BIOS version - so I'm thinking the secure erase tool should be able to handle the new-ish 870 QVO without breaking anything... right?
So what do you think? Will Asus secure erase work here? How big of a risk am I taking by trying it?
I have tried the Samsung Magician software to make a bootable USB drive and use their secure erase solution, but I cannot get the damn thing to boot from my BIOS (I have tried just about everything.) So I find myself looking at my BIOS's "built-in" secure erase feature as my only solution. Asus says some SSDs are incompatible and to look online for a list first - yet I cannot find said list anywhere.
My motherboard is a Asus Prime Z390-A if that helps. I also updated said motherboard to latest BIOS version - so I'm thinking the secure erase tool should be able to handle the new-ish 870 QVO without breaking anything... right?
So what do you think? Will Asus secure erase work here? How big of a risk am I taking by trying it?