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 ...

Do you have a pile of old drives that you want to wipe clean before sending them on their way to Silicon Heaven? Perhaps you need to wipe a drive clean in a computer you’re selling or giving away.

Reader Steve Carter would like his deleted files to be really, really gone. He writes: How do you delete a file completely and forever? I thought the original still remains on the hard drive until it ...