Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i Hello,
It would be nice if the debian installer included the option to "secure erase" SSDs before creating a partition table during installation. A used SSD may have been "over-filled", especially a consumer grade device that is not over-provisioned. By this I mean that it has had enough cells written that writing requires erasure, which results in write-amplification and poor performance. A "secure erase" operation restores the original performance of the drive. I have not put any thought into whether this feature is feasible. Regards, Karl -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.9 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
