Quote Originally Posted by audienceofone View Post
QFT. Benchmarks kill the short/ midterm performance of SSD and if you don't follow the above you are wasting your time. This has now been well documented on the OCZ forum.
Just zeroing out the drive doesn't work IMO. I tried KillDisk and DBAN. And did 2 zeroes and both did not help. The only thing that worked was HDDerase which AFAIK doesn't zero out since it takes a few seconds to complete.