Erasing an SSD drive not only sanitizes the drive, but recovers lost performance on systems with inefficient garbage collection. We'll show you how to securely erase your SSD drive. Ed Rhee Ed Rhee, a ...

We went through a couple years ago and replaced all our spinning drives with SATA SSDs to try and get a couple more years out of our older devices. As those have been replaced with new computers, ...

Whether for slowed performance or some other issue that’s crept up, sometimes securely erasing your SSD is the solution needed. While there are a number of ways to get the deed done, most solutions ...

With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the ...

Update: As some have pointed out (thanks Robert and others), it’s not that SSDs are fundamentally difficult to erase exactly, but that methods well-known as ways to securely delete data are ...

Simply deleting the data off your hard drive doesn’t erase it as you might expect. Instead, NTFS (the file system used by Windows PCs) just hides the data from immediate view, leaving it to be ...