Prior to the discovery that SSDs could experience performance degradation over long periods of time, no one seemed to care about what a "secure erase' was, much less had the need to run one. Hard drives, due to their design, don't benefit much if at all from a secure erase, but in some cases SSDs can (especially if TRIM is not supported). The reason boils down to the fact that a secure erase reverts a storage device to its original factory condition like no other. It's far more effective than a simple format, for reasons we've discussed before.
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