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.
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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 ...
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SSD Secure Erasing Tool - Some Help Please

OK, so it's late here, I'm tired and I've broken my glasses in frustration. It's time to ask for some help... I gotten hold of an old 1.8" Samsung PB2-JS3 128gb SSD and bought an adapter for it to use ...