We have a stack of unusable 16GB MLC SATA modules from various thin clients, mostly t510, t520, and so on. Many of them had Windows 7 Embedded on them, but I have been instructed to move to Thin OS. However, I can't seem to erase these SSDs. I've tried everything I can think of, even using Linux and GParted, it "looks" like it works, but seems to somehow "restores" itself back. I can't even erase anything off of it, it looks like it disappears but when I remount it everything shows back up again.
fdisk /dev/sdb does the same thing, and then it says the device is "busy". Sometimes it says that the partitions have been erased (yes I w to write), it says a single new one is made, but it still restores / copies / magicaly heals back to what it was. I even ran through hdparm and it said it is not locked, frozen, or expired. So just what is going on here?