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  • Selecting these drives for erasure and selecting a “purge-level” erasure standard (e.g. “NIST 800-88 Purge” or “Blancco SSD Erasure”) will display a “NOT SUPPORTED” icon under the drive (Erasure-step > Advanced-view). This means that the drive does not support the selected erasure standard (and not that the selected erasure standard does not support the drive).
  • This problem cannot be fixed in Blancco Drive Eraser. Ideally, in order to have a chance to purge these drives, Apple should publish an updated drive firmware (for the drives in question) including the missing commands.
  • For the time being, Blancco Drive Eraser can only overwrite these drives. Overwriting these drives with the erasure standards “Aperiodic Random Overwrite” or “HMG Lower Standard” and using a 100% verification will achieve a “clear-level” erasure (as defined by NIST).
  • Some of these Apple machines have NVMe drives (example models: MacBookAir7,1 , MacBook8,1 , MacBook9,1). It is recommended to overwrite them with Blancco Drive Eraser 6.2.0 or higher.

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