

If youre planning to donate, recycle, or sell your PC, use this option and choose to fully clean the drive. It may work and it may not however right now you have a drive that. Wake the system and attempt the secure erase. If the disk is locked, PM will give you the option to put the system to sleep do so. In case you dont find a viable secure erase option you can reset: Reset Windows 10. The next window that opens selects the disk then it gives you options on how to erase. I'd like to do a secure erase and a fresh install of windows to get rid of all that and troubleshoot, but also to use the hardware encryption available with this model, but my motherboard has no ps/2 ports and I can't seem to use the bootable usb without a ps/2 keyboard, so if anyone could help with that I'd appreciate it very much. Mini Tool has a secure erase option: How to Secure Erase SSD or Wipe SSD MiniTool Guide 2020. I've tried uninstalling all of the bloatware it put on here, but I can't seem to get rid of it all no matter what I do. I am a little suspicious it may have something to do with my grave mistake of installing asus armory crate software, and the absurd amount of services it chooses to run. I have noticed windows isn't as snappy as it was when I first booted up, and programs definitely seem to load a bit slower. Does it decrease depending on how full the drive is or something? Mine is about half full.

Here's a screenshot of several benchmarks over time.Īs you can see the sequential read speed increases to what it's rated at, but the random read and write drop by about 90k and 70k in just a couple days after building the computer, and then 2 months later the random read is about another 30k lower. The sequential speeds are a bit odd as well. I have a new 1TB 980 Pro that has had reduced IOPs over a very short period of time.
