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A cryptographic erase of PCIe SSD devices either controlled by bridge card or CPU can be performed by setting the PCIeSSDsecureErase attribute to True.
<Component FQDD="Disk.Bay.16:Enclosure.Internal.0‐1:PCIeExtender.Slot.4">
<Attribute Name="PCIeSSDsecureErase">True</Attribute>
</Component>
A cryptographic erase of NVMe or SAS/SATA drives attached to a PERC can be performed by setting the Cryptographic Erase attribute to True.
<Component FQDD="Disk.Bay.5:Enclosure.Internal.0‐1:RAID.Slot.1‐1">
<Attribute Name="Cryptographic Erase">True</Attribute>
</Component>