Are there any benefits, in terms of performance or security in ‘wiping’ or overwriting an SSD before reinstalling Linux? And if so, what is the best way of doing it?
I’m planning on doing a clean install of Debian 13 on my laptop soon.
I’m currently on Fedora and using encryption and will be using encryption on Debian too. I do not have a separate home partition.
Thanks :)
There’s no performance improvement to wiping an SSD. At least not meaningfully, on a completely empty SSD that has been factory wiped. You may see a first time right improvement but that goes away as soon as the SSD starts doing garbage collection.
As for your other reasons, they’re completely up to you.