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 :)

  • Papamousse@beehaw.org
    3·
    19 hours ago

    If you are using encryption now, you do not need to wipe the SSD, after a new install the remaining data on the “disk” will still be encrypted, without the key.