The Ghosts of Your Files Haunt Old, Erased Hard Drives. Here’s How to Exorcise Them.

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

This is what happens to a file when you delete it from your SSD

Deleting a file on an SSD isn’t as straightforward as it looks.
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 ...
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 ...
Ars Technica

Mac SSD Trim and Overprovisioning or how to delete a SSD

I'm new to this forum and I'm afraid I've got a rather complex question right from the start. It has to do with the SSD technology Apple uses in all their Macbook models. The goal would be to make all ...
TweakTown

TEAMGROUP's new P250Q Self-Destruct SSD: erase your data like James Bond in a single click

TL;DR: TEAMGROUP's P250Q Self-Destruct SSD offers innovative one-click data destruction with an independent hardware circuit, ensuring secure and reliable erasure even during power loss. Featuring ...

The Ghosts of Your Files Haunt Old, Erased Hard Drives. Here’s How to Exorcise Them.

Before you junk your old computer or external solid state drive, here’s how to thoroughly wipe all your data, because it’s ...
Ars Technica

Securely erase trash on an SSD?

Is there any value in securely erasing trash on an SSD? I presume that latest Mac OS X and latest hardware is using trim on delete, right? So isn't stuff unrecoverable once deleted? I imagine that ...