The SSD should not be connected to the machine through additional pieces of hardware such as USB/FireWire docking stations or PATA/SATA/SAS bridges.

The whole drive must be erased when using Blancco's SSD method. The use of firmware based erasure commands will not work on partitions on an SSD. The success of the erasure can be affected if two drives are attempted to be erased simultaneously. If the SSD-drives are really old models (usually 64GB or smaller), it is recommended that only one SSD should be erased per machine at a time.If the SSD you are trying to erase does not support the firmware based erasure command(s), or it is not possible to remove the freeze lock, it is not possible to erase the SSD with Blancco's SSD erasure method.However, if your erasure policy mandates that a different process should be applied for these drives, other options can be selected but a message will appear on the report highlighting that an SSD was erased. For these drives, the recommended and most thorough erasure standard available in the software is Blancco's SSD Erasure Standard. Currently the SSD Erasure Method is designed to erase SSDs that use the ATA or SAS based interface and support the firmware based erasure commands.

The following guidelines should be carefully followed when erasing an SSD:

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