If you need to get rid of a Mac or external drive, how do you ensure that no one can access the data on it? Adam Engst runs through the various methods you can employ, one or more of which should ...

The ATA Secure Erase command is meant to wipe every block on the disk or SSD, including any bad blocks and over provisioning, so it should beat the likes of DBAN or other disk erasing that can ...

Hi all, I'm looking for a Windows program that can run the ATA Secure Erase command for any SSD that supports it. I have Intel, Samsung, Crucial, Sandisk, etc. drives, and they all require their ...

Toshiba announces cryptographic erase and self-encryption features for new enterprise SSD and mobile HDD models. New drive models offer security featu ...

Erase the data completely, not just reformat A standard format doesn't actually erase data Many people assume that reformatting a drive removes all data, but that's not true.