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 ...

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

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 ...

When that happens, it becomes difficult to fully erase data from NAND flash cells and eventually, your precious SSD will hit the end of its lifespan.

Microsoft has found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 security update and customer reports of failure and data ...