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Parted Magic Secure Erase BEFORE Restore???

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From time to time I experiment with different software and sometime things get mucked up. I dont worry because I know I can go back to a restore point. My question is, I typically do parted magic secure/enhanced erase of the SSD because I THINK it would be the best way to get rid of the junk. But is it really necessary? I wonder what the erase differences are if I just use Acronis to do a restore and it deletes partitions prior, is it having the same effect? It would be nice to get rid of my 2 step process if Acronis does just as well of a job to clean the SSD before it restores.

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Donald, using any secure erase utility is only really needed if you are disposing of the drive and want to ensure that there are no contents that could be recovered to expose your private data.

SSD's are logical devices very different to the older mechanical spinning drives where it has been possible to recover forensic data using special tools, so I am not even sure if these type of tools would work with modern SSD drives?

If you just want to ensure a clean start for a base when doing a recovery, then you could use some built in Windows commands (from a WinPE boot drive on USB, DVD) which would do just what is needed.

diskpart
list disk   (to identify the correct drive, i.e. 1)
select disk 1
clean
create partition primary
active
format fs=ntfs quick
assign
exit

The above will remove all partitions from the SSD, clean the drive then create a single whole disk partition, set it as active, format as NTFS and assign a drive letter - all taking a few seconds.

Thank you for the response Steve. Every time I have done a restore, I have used Parted Magic to presumably provide myself with a clean base to recover too. I presumed this to be a better approach to just booting up with Acronis and doing a restore. I presumed that perhaps Acronis would not clean the drive as well. So is it safe to say that when I muck up the PC while experimenting with different softwares/settings, that Acronis Restore alone is more than sufficient (no crumbs that could cause conflict are left behind?). Thank you

Donald, just doing an Acronis Recovery / Restore  should be fine for 99.9% of users and there should be no possibility of settings from old software 'shining' through without having to use extra secure erase type tools.  This is assuming we are talking about a Disks & Partitions type recovery or restore.

Personally, I have only used such security tools when disposing of drives that may have held personal or sensitive data, and even then a good ballpein hammer is much faster and more secure if the drive is going in the bin!