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

If the drive is relatively newish, it should support the ATA Secure Erase function. If so, use the manufacturer utility or another utility that supports ATA Secure Erase and it will wipe the drive ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Joensuu, Finland-based Blancco, a provider of data erasure solutions, now supports solid state drive (SSD) erasure within its family of certified data erasure products. “The newly released software ...