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!

    • Krutonium@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The dd step is to overwrite all the data; this would do the same thing on a HDD or an SSD, but the blkdiscard -s tells the SSD to erase all blocks. In theory this is a secure erase, but in practice most SSD’s implement it in a flawed way, hence the first step.