You can wipe a hard drive much easier now with the help of your Windows 10 Settings menu and the Disk Utility manager in a Mac's Recovery Mode. It's also possible to wipe a Mac data drive through the ...

Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what disappears from view often lingers in the background, recoverable with the right ...

Here's how to properly wipe a drive before selling it ...

One of the security features included with many motherboards is a BIOS lock. With a BIOS lock in place, your computer won't boot into the operating system without the password, BIOS settings cannot be ...

Yesterday's article on securely erasing a hard disk in preparation for system resale prompted some further discussion. Several readers suggested using the Apple Drive Setup Utility to write zeroes to ...

OW Shredder is all about removing files from your hard drive without leaving traces behind. The only feature we would have liked it to have i to support batch processing, and that is a disappointment.

Toshiba today announced it has developed a new technique, dubbed Wipe, that will make self-encrypting drives even more secure by automatically erasing data upon removing them from a system or when the ...

Toshiba on Tuesday introduced a new hard drive feature that can wipe out data after the storage devices are powered down. The Wipe feature in Toshiba’s SED (Self-Encrypting Drives) will allow for ...

Toshiba joins the self-encrypting hard drive march forward with its new Toshiba Self-Encrypting Drives series (models MKxx61GSYG). These SED drives won’t quite self-destruct like in “Mission: ...

Data Remanence refers to the remnants of (magnetized) data that are left even after safely wiping data from your hard disks or pen drives. Sometimes, even formatting a disk does not remove the entire ...

A recently presented paper about sanitizing solid-state devices (SSDs) and some reaction to it may offer an interesting lesson for EEs designing next-generation products. The paper, “Reliably Erasing ...