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 ...

Secure Erase and HP Disk Sanitizer are tools used to remove data from a hard drive or solid-state drive permanently. The deleted information cannot be recovered. Use Secure Erase or HP Disk Sanitizer ...

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

In this post, we will show you how to delete one, multiple, or all Google Drive files at once and also how to delete files permanently in Google Drive. Google Drive is one of the most used cloud ...

Ask Ars dives into the swampy waters of secure data deletion on solid state drives, why traditional methods don't work, and what recourse you have.

Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what ...

The original Mac let you erase disks right on the Desktop, with the feature returning thanks to macOS Sequoia. Here's how to use it. When the original Mac was released in 1984, its desktop allowed ...

So I picked up a 750GB WD My Passport at BB a couple days ago, oblivious to the added Drive Lock/Smart BU crap on the label - I was going to format it anyway. After formatting for Mac OS Extended, I ...

This article explains how to erase and factory reset your Mac if you plan to give it away, sell it, or trade it in. Apple silicon Macs and Intel Macs with a T2 security chip (2017-2020 models) have an ...