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#WIPING MAC HARD DRIVE WITH DBAN UPGRADE#
#WIPING MAC HARD DRIVE WITH DBAN SOFTWARE#
#WIPING MAC HARD DRIVE WITH DBAN FREE#

Many commercial software scrubbers claim they are military grade tech and trusted by government agencies and major corporations as their primary disk wipe utility.

#WIPING MAC HARD DRIVE WITH DBAN FREE#

DBAN versus Commercial SoftwareĭBAN is a free disk eraser located on source forge which will wipe most hard drives clear of all data. As technology progresses and as SSD gets cheaper I would imagine that most devices will come standard with SSD. If you don’t know which type of hard drive you have I recommend buying one that does both. The cheaper models usually do not erase SSD drives.

CRU Inc WiebeTech Drive eRazer Ultra – Hard drive eraser – native SATA and IDE/PATA, and more.

The HDD copier offers high performance duplication, and has been tested for speeds up to 14GB per minute. Erase up to 2 SATA hard drives simultaneously without a host computer.

StarTech Standalone 2.5in/3.5in SATA Hard Drive Duplicator and Eraser – HDD Hard Disk Drive Duplicator and Sanitizer.

Connect your 2.5in and 3.5in SATA HDDs or SSDs through a USB 3.0 connections.

USB 3.0 SATA Hard Drive Duplicator & Eraser Dock – Standalone 2.5/3.5in HDD & SSD Eraser and Cloner.

But as a home user they are still affordable enough that at the lower end I could see buying one simply due to the ease of use.

They are so fast that many business / enterprise level users use them before discarding computers. Hardware based disk wiping solutions are much faster and easier the software based solutions. Hardware Based Disk Erase Solutions #1 Recommended Tool – Software based solutions like DBAN, Paragon and WipeDrive are typically much slower than hardware based solutions. However, they are cheaper than hardware based solutions. They usually work with most systems and can be a little more difficult to figure out. Software based solutions will need to be ran from a disk or USB flash drive. Sometime cheaper on Amazon but check their website price here.

WipeDrive is a long time favorite of mine.

#WIPING MAC HARD DRIVE WITH DBAN UPGRADE#

Paragon has a bare-bones disk wipe package but I recommend the upgrade to Manager 15, this will give you SSD and HDD wipe plus backup and other PC utilities.

( Buy the CD here if you can’t burn it to disk yourself) Requires a working computer that can boot to disk or flash drive.

DBAN – free open source and works for a lot of systems.

Software Disk Erase Solutionsīut with so many open source and commercial software based solutions to erase your hard drive one might wonder what is the best and why? Lets review my top solutions one can use to nuke your hard drive. Darik’s boot and nuke is Free Software one can use to boot and nuke your HDD (hard drive). Commercial products often come with support where as open source, not so much. Keep in mind DBAN is open source and free. In this review of DBAN I mention that it’s not the most user friendly product, but if you give it a couple stabs more often than not you’ll succeed.