Just curious as I want to replace my original Steam Deck before the OLED releases.

Is a Steam Deck safe to sell after performing a factory reset? As in, will the next owner be able to obtain any passwords to my steam account or any other account/personal details?

Thanks in advance!

  • Lowe0@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This applies only to 256/512 GB models; I don’t know that the 64 GB model supports this command:

    NVMe drives contain an internal encryption key. By deleting this key, all data (including over provisioned blocks) is practically unrecoverable. (You’d need a sufficiently motivated attacker with knowledge of a flaw in the encryption algorithm.)

    To use this command, you’ll need to boot from another Linux device, such as a thumb drive with Debian on it. Once you’ve installed nvme-cli you can use the following instructions:

    https://tinyapps.org/docs/nvme-secure-erase.html

    As always, I’m not responsible if you brick your device. And of course, you’ll need to reimage as soon as this finishes, as the drive will no longer contain a partition table.