Houston Chronicle

How to Wipe a Hard Drive Without Software

As your business grows, you may decide to upgrade your company workstations and dispose of your old computers. Discarding hard drives can problematic because it's quite likely that they contain ...
Houston Chronicle

Does Formatting Totally Erase a Hard Drive?

When disposing of old hard drives, it is important to ensure that no company data remains on the drive for someone to find and exploit. One way to delete data is to format a drive, using the same ...
eturbonews

Global Hard Disk Eraser Market Top Company Profile 2021| Garner, VS Security, Security Engineered Machinery, Proton Data Security

Pune, Maharashtra, India, January 20 2021 (Wiredrelease) MarketDesk –:Marketdesk added versatile composition of research derivatives pertaining to diverse developments in the global Hard Disk Eraser ...
The Trentonian

NIST Successfully Tests BitRaser(R) Drive Eraser for Securely Wiping Hard Drives & SSDs

METUCHEN, N.J., June 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently tested the media-wiping efficacy of BitRaser Drive Eraser software. The test was ...
Charlotte Observer

To donate computer, erase hard drive first

Q. How do I erase my hard drive safely so that I can donate my computer to a charity? There are any number of secure erase programs that should do the trick, says Jeff Crume, executive IT security ...
Gizmodo

New Fujitsu HDD Can Erase 500 GB in Under a Second

Fujitsu’s new 500 GB, 5400 RPM Hard Drive isn’t noteworthy for it’s storage or speed—rather, it’s mentionable because the 2.5-inch spinner can erase the whole of its contents in under a second. The ...
Small Business Computing

How to Completely Erase a Hard Disk Drive

If you’re ready to invest in a new computer, and your thinking about donating your old computer to a charity, local group or school, it’s important to make sure your computer’s hard drive is ...
Treasure Coast Newspapers

Best ways to erase personal information from computer hard drive

A: Are you hoping to keep the machines after the drives have been erased, or are you just trying to remove personal information before getting rid of them? If the latter, then the easiest approach ...
TWCN Tech News

Data Remanence: Explanation and Removing the Residual Data

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 ...
Macworld

Erase hard disk drives with standalone eRazer

WiebeTech on Monday introduced a new device that enables users to erase a hard drive securely without having to tie up a host computer. The Drive eRazer is priced starting $99.95. The Drive eRazer ...
Business Wire

Toshiba Announces Cryptographic-Erase and Self-Encryption Features for New Enterprise SSD and Mobile HDD Models

For the enterprise, the PX02AMU value line of SATA eSSD models and PX03ANU read-intensive line of SATA SSD models feature cryptographic-erase. In addition, the PX02SMQ/U series offers Trusted ...