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

Do you have a pile of old drives that you want to wipe clean before sending them on their way to Silicon Heaven? Perhaps you need to wipe a drive clean in a computer you’re selling or giving away.

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

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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 ...

Typically when a computer reaches the point where it is no longer useful to anyone at work, we dispose of it, but first wipe the drive. I typically use DBAN for our PCs, and it works on Macs too so ...

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.