There’s a trick to thoroughly wiping all your data before you junk your old external solid state drive—or even computer.

Over on TidBITS Talk, user Lucas043 posed a question that prompted a fascinating discussion. Lucas043 has a Samsung Portable T7 SSD being used for backup. The SSD has intermittent access problems and ...

The disk in question is disk04 - a 128 GB SSD drive in an external USB enclosure. I booted the Macbook from a X.11 USB install drive and there was an internal SSD drive as well. a simple fdisk ...

We went through a couple years ago and replaced all our spinning drives with SATA SSDs to try and get a couple more years out of our older devices. As those have been replaced with new computers, ...

On an external drive, the delete key is more of a suggestion than a final verdict. Files that appear to vanish from a USB ...

Whether for slowed performance or some other issue that’s crept up, sometimes securely erasing your SSD is the solution needed. While there are a number of ways to get the deed done, most solutions ...

Incorporating advanced cryptographic erase technologies, Foremay’s self encrypting drives not only secure user information by implementing data encryption and file encryption on a full disk encryption ...

METUCHEN, N.J., June 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently tested the media-wiping efficacy of BitRaser Drive Eraser software. The test was ...

Carmela writes in with a question after wiping a 2010 MacBook Pro and reinstalling macOS: I wanted to restore it to factory settings, but while erasing the disk I erased not only “Macintosh HD” but ...