IS DBAN necessary?

[minimoose]

I made a post earlier about whether formatting a SSD would get rid of all viruses, but I heard about DBAN, is this necessary or is it overkill?

[Lyons]

http://www.overclock.net/t/1227597/how-to-secure-erase-your-solid-state-drive-ssd-with-parted-magic#post_16684060

[helping]

noooooooooooooooo do not DBAN it. 

[minimoose]

http://www.overclock.net/t/1227597/how-to-secure-erase-your-solid-state-drive-ssd-with-parted-magic#post_16684060

Thanks!

[minimoose]

noooooooooooooooo do not DBAN it. 

Will it get rid of the viruses from just formatting it?

[pspfreak]

Will it get rid of the viruses from just formatting it?

Yes.

[minimoose]

Yes.

Also what is the difference between a quick format and a full one?

[pspfreak]

Also what is the difference between a quick format and a full one?

 

A Quick Format is just that, quick. In order to make the formatting process quick, the drive is not checked for bad sectors. Anyone looking at the hard drive or storage device would not see any data and assume the drive is erased. Unfortunately, the files are actually still there and the volume could be re-built, to gain access to the files again.

A Full Format runs an additional step that checks the hard drive for any bad sectors. This check is what makes the full format take so much longer than a quick format. Unfortunately, just like the quick format the files still exist and the volume could be re-built to gain access to any of the files on the drive again.

src: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001407.htm

[ionbasa]

Also what is the difference between a quick format and a full one?

A quick format merely deletes the file-system, while a full format should also write 0s to the drive.