[SOLVED] zeroing SSD with dd
by anctop from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5KZTP)
Hi,
I tried to wipe a WD Green 240GB SATA SSD.
As WD does not provide "official" diagnostic tool for the product, I plugged the drive in a Linux system and executed the command:
Code:dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdXHowever the process died with the error "Input/output error" after writing a random amount (varied from 400MB to 900MB) of zeros to the drive.
It seems to be a hardware issue, but testing the drive with "smartctl" reports no error.
What other tests can be conducted in order to arrive at a convincing conclusion about the usability of the drive ?
I tried to wipe a WD Green 240GB SATA SSD.
As WD does not provide "official" diagnostic tool for the product, I plugged the drive in a Linux system and executed the command:
Code:dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdXHowever the process died with the error "Input/output error" after writing a random amount (varied from 400MB to 900MB) of zeros to the drive.
It seems to be a hardware issue, but testing the drive with "smartctl" reports no error.
What other tests can be conducted in order to arrive at a convincing conclusion about the usability of the drive ?