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Device initialization

Erasing the drive

Fill SSD with sequential data twice of it's capacity. This will gurantee all available memory is filled with a data including factory provisioned area:

$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/**deviceID** bs=1024k
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/**deviceID** bs=1024k

dd will finish with the message No space left on device or an out of space error. This shows that dd has successfully completed writing to the entire disk and there is no more space left for dd to continue.