Provided one wants their SSD to remain operable, is the best way to make the information on your Mac inaccessible to forces (with considerable resources) to encrypt the entire SSD utilizing ...

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 ...

Two Australian researchers have published a paper revealing how an SSD can completely erase its contents, making it impossible for a time consuming recovery.

Secure erase Delete doesn't delete your data. All that delete does is erase file's reference information in the disk directory, marking the blocks as free for reuse.

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 ...

If you were to erase the free disk space on an SSD, you would force the system to unnecessarily write not only to locations where data previously was stored, but also to fresh locations on the ...