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 ...

Release Summary BCWipe Total WipeOut, Jetico's DoD wipe software, can now securely erase SSD in less time by working with native commands for NVMe such as User Data Erase and Cryptographic Erase.

If you're worried about the guy you sell your SSD to, an erase of a FileVault-encrypted drive is fine. If you're worried about three-letter agencies, then what you need is a hammer and/or a blowtorch.

BCWipe Total WipeOut, Jetico’s software to secure erase SSD data beyond forensic recovery, has again passed the ADISA Product Claims Test.

Until a university study emerged last week, few experts suspected that it’s more difficult to erase data stored on solid-state drives (SSD) than that on hard disk drives (HDDs). Industry experts ...

As hard-disk sanitization typically won't work on solid-state drives, organizations should include SSD-specific policies and be able to verify data erasure is clean, researchers urge.

Two Australian researchers have published a paper revealing how an SSD can completely erase its contents, making it impossible for a time consuming recovery.

The study’s method is straightforward: They put repeating data on an SSD or USB drive, tried using various erasing techniques, took the SSD or USB drive apart, and pulled raw data off the chips.

Secure erase Delete doesn't delete your data. All that delete does is erase file's reference information in the disk directory, marking the blocks as free for reuse.