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 ...

The main issue with SSD's is spare area still holding data, but once a flash cell (or harddisk sector) is re-written, data recovery is generally impossible without serious money (drive recovery ...

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.

SSDs may offer better data security than traditional hard drives, but they do not completely erase data and are vulnerable to physical hacks from light sources like an ultraviolet laser, experts say.

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