User Manual

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ASUS X99-E-10G WS
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Chapter 3
Displays the
available SSDs
Status denition:
Frozen. The frozen state is the result of a BIOS protective measure. The BIOS guards
drives that do not have password protection by freezing them prior to booting. If the
drive is frozen, a power off or hard reset of your PC must be performed to proceed
with the Secure Erase.
Locked. SSDs might be locked if the Secure Erase process is either incomplete or
was stopped. This may be due to a third party software that uses a different password
dened by ASUS. You have to unlock the SSD in the software before proceeding with
Secure Erase.
The time to erase the contents of your SSD may take a while depending on its size.
Do not turn off the system during the process.
Secure Erase is only supported on Intel SATA port. For more information about Intel
SATA ports, refer to section 1.2.2 Motherboard layout of this manual.