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Yah, I have done a couple full discharges since owning the device. I guess I'll run with it for a while and see. At this rate, the battery will be 25% degraded after a couple of years....

Is this normal? It seems like my battery is degrading quicker than it should be. Thanks. CHEMISTRY LION DESIGN CAPACITY 42,157 mWh FULL CHARGE CAPACITY 40,949 mWh CYCLE COUNT 14

Wow. Great catch! The verbiage they are using is "fully clean the drive" as apposed to just deleting the files. I have to assume it uses the built in firmware features of the SSD to securely erase the drive and actually doesn't write random data. I'm more curious than anything, but how would...

Thanks for the replies guys. For a home user, yes, you can hit the restore button and I'm sure you're okay. Business on the other hand.... Typically when I'm done with a PC I run DBAN and I'm done with it. DBAN won't run, and due to the UEFI requirement a lot of other utilities won't run as...

Does that option trigger the secure erase function of the SSD and then restore the partition, or does it just restore the partition?

I might be returning my surface pro due to a kickstand issue and I'd like to secure erase the SSD before I do. I loaded up Partedmagic and tried to use the secure erase function to wipe the drive and it's frozen. Apparently the SP3 doesn't support sleep so it can't un-freeze the drive. The...

Not if you are getting your unit swapped out or sending it in for warranty work.

There is a new external battery pack coming out. Being a new SP3 owner and missing my 12 hour iPad battery, this made me feel a lot better: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/chargeall-world-s-smallest-portable-power-outlet?sa=0&sp=0