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

What this means is that the deleted file is not fully gone and can still be recovered. It's only when the data is overwritten ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Ask Ars dives into the swampy waters of secure data deletion on solid state drives, why traditional methods don't work, and what recourse you have.

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

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