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

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 ...

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 ...

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.