How to safely format from bios: secure erase?

Times are ticking and so are motherboards, especially your BIOS software . This is the case of ASUS, a company that has been providing a very interesting function since 2015 for those who want to format the hard disk from the BIOS. Its feature is called " Secure Erase " and it works like a charm.

How to format from BIOS?

In our case, we have found this function on ASUS ROG boards, but we may find them in brands such as Gigabyte, MSI or Asrock.

As for the ASUS ROG boards, we will have to go to the " Tool " or " Tools " menu to access the " Secure Erase " option, which is used to format SSD hard drives.

If we hit " Enter " or "Enter", we will see the hard drives we have to format.

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Not surprisingly, the partitions that were on the hard drive will also be removed. After the formatting process, a message will appear saying that it has been carried out satisfactorily and that our PC will be restarted.

Why format this way?

Apparently, this tool from ASUS, MSI & Co uses a special algorithm to format so that our SSD does not deteriorate and lose performance with subsequent formatting. This occurs normally, but the tool seems to rectify this problem, returning lost performance to our SSD hard drives.

Many users have reported this change, achieving faster read and write speeds than they had before using Secure Erase. The truth is that we would all be willing to sign the possibility of formatting and not lose performance over time.

However, I am very afraid that this feature is not found on all motherboards on the market, only among the best motherboards on the market. In addition, it is difficult to find out if a certain motherboard incorporates this function or not because they are utilities that we do not usually see in the descriptions or technical specifications of the motherboards.

Have you used this function? How was the experience? Would you buy an ASUS board to use it?

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