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

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

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

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.

Before you junk your old computer or external solid state drive, here’s how to thoroughly wipe all your data, because it’s ...

TL;DR: TEAMGROUP's P250Q Self-Destruct SSD offers innovative one-click data destruction with an independent hardware circuit, ensuring secure and reliable erasure even during power loss. Featuring ...

HELSINKI, Finland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jetico, developer of best-in-class data wiping software, announced today that their BCWipe Total WipeOut has been revalidated by the Asset Disposal and Information ...

HELSINKI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jetico, leading-edge developer of DoD wipe software, announced today version 3.5 of BCWipe Total WipeOut. Jetico’s long-trusted solution to wipe hard drive data can now ...

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 ...

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 were ...

The option for secure deletion (overwriting) of single files was removed from Mac OS when El Capitan was released as they came to the conclusion that they could not "guarantee" secure deletion.

Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, or SMART, has its advantages in protecting industrial-grade solid-state drives and securing their data—but it also has its limits. Typical SMART ...