![]() The problem is that almost every article I can find on this subject contradicts Apple's optimistic view about erasing an SSD. This sounds good to me, and this view was confirmed both at the Genius Bar and by calling Apple. These options are not needed for an SSDĭrive because a standard erase makes it difficult to recover data from Note: With an SSD drive, Secure Erase and Erasing Free Space are notĪvailable in Disk Utility. However, I'm unable to do a Secure Erase from the recovery disk (as I used to do with mechanical hard drives before selling or giving away a computer) since the "Security Options" button is grayed out.īased on an article in Apple's knowledge base, the button is intentionally disabled for SSD's because: I'm about to trade in a 2010 MacBook Pro with an SSD.
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