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Simply deleting files won’t erase an external drive permanently

The right way to wipe an external drive depends heavily on what is inside the enclosure. A Super User thread on reinstalling Linux from a USB stick spells this out clearly, the best way to wipe a ...
PC World

This tiny USB stick will erase your digital past

TL;DR: Permanently erase files and folders with military-grade security using the Data Shredder Stick—just $29.99 with free shipping. Some not-so-known info is that hitting “delete” doesn’t actually ...
Ars Technica

Using terminal to erase external SSD hard drive

The disk in question is disk04 - a 128 GB SSD drive in an external USB enclosure. I booted the Macbook from a X.11 USB install drive and there was an internal SSD drive as well. a simple fdisk ...
Network World

IronKey adds remote wipe feature for USB drives

A new service called Silver Bullet from encrypted thumb-drive vendor IronKey will let administrators wipe out or lock the data on USB sticks in the field. Silver Bullet is a Web-based service that ...
Ars Technica

USB 3.0 hard drive docks/enclosures seem to erase drive partitions?

I and other people I know seem to each suffer from a similar problem across different brand and models of hard drive docks. The drive partition just one day disappears. The data is still there, but ...