Morning Overview on MSN

Your deleted files haunt old hard drives, here's how to purge them

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

Simply deleting files won’t erase an external drive permanently

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

You Need to Do More Than Delete Files on an External Drive to Make Them Permanently Disappear

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

Deleting files isn't enough - here's how to properly erase hard drives

Since the Help Desk launched last year, we've received loads of requests for the best ways to preserve different kinds of data in our lives: think voice mails, conversations and even cherished home ...
Ars Technica

Using terminal to erase external SSD hard drive

The disk in question is disk04 - a 128 GB SSD drive in an external USB enclosure. I booted the Macbook from a X.11 USB install drive and there was an internal SSD drive as well. a simple fdisk ...
Tidbits

How to Securely Erase a Mac’s SSD or Hard Drive

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 ...