Optane 900p Secure Erase

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Weapon

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I have a Optane 900p 280GB I'm trying to secure erase using the Intel Toolbox.

It detects the drive but gives me a kinda generic error about trouble communicating with the drive when I run the secure erase function.

I've tried on a Coffee Lake system, Haswell, and even an old Core 2 Duo with more or less the same results.

Any suggestions?
 

T_Minus

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Interesting. Windows7? Which NVME driver?
The Intel Toolbox specifically says it does not work (secureerase) on Win10 or 8.x


Yes, it does work on Windows 7 :)

I've yet to try a NVME on Win7 that didn't work, unsure which driver, but I still boot\test with Win7+Intel SSD toolbox to do secure erase.
 

Weapon

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Good to know, thank you

edit: Setup a windows 7 install on a Lenovo TS140 system and was able to successfully run the secure erase command on the 900p. FYI for anyone else, it will instantly goto 50% and then hang there for 5-10 minutes before completing.
 
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