Do I need now to secure erase my Samsung evo 850 ?

[Yusuf Il]

I have Samsung evo 850 evo and I restored an image for windows 10 created by macrium reflect to it maybe 12 times now I want to restore that image again to the SSD now do I need to first secure erase the ssd because a lot of data was wrote to the ssd or just restore the image and the ssd trim will delete old data ? What will happen to the old data when I restore the image ?

 

[Yusuf Il]

Anyone ?

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey there, Yusuf Il.

Basically there's no need for you to secure erase the drive before you restore the system image. Check out this tutorial (I know it says Win 7, but the situation is pretty much the same): http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/restore-computer-from-system-image-backup#1TC=windows-7 and more importantly this part:
"Warning

When you restore your computer from a system image, it's a complete restoration. You can't choose individual items to restore, and all of your programs, system settings, and files are replaced with those on the system image."

So everything should be replaced by the system image you already have so please backup any important data which you might have on that drive, before you restore the image.

Even though my guess is based on Windows' system image restore, I expect the same thing to happen with the system image you've created with the 3rd party program, but it would be best if you could confirm that with the software developer's customer support or just check their website for more info on restoring a system image.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD