Blame it on a discrepancy with NAND flash memory but trading solid-state drives (SSDs) these days is far more difficult than previously.
It is for this reason that a number of tricks that have to be employed so as to find use for the old SSD.
First, it bodes well that we have to clean up the drive for it to resume peak performance. No, we’re not talking about formatting or partitioning the hard drive since the garbage that you’ve collected has to be removed with another approach: the ATA Secure Erase command.
What this command does is remove everything on an SSD, including information in NAND flash memory cells, bringing it back to a fresh factory-reset like setting.
So, how does one go about doing this?
There are a number of tools that one can use to do so such as OCZ’s Toolbox, Seagate’s SeaTools or even Samsung’s Magician. Since most of these tools only work on the hardware that they’ve created, other options such as the DriveErase utility in Parted Magic software also offers this capability.
People who use Windows 7 or 8 might not have to use this feature while others can use Parted Magic, which runs on a bootable flash drive, to carry out this task.
Once this is done, you can repartition the drive as well as format it too not forgetting that the Windows Drive Management utility is just as useful for the task as well.