Your deleted files can still be recovered. Here are the safe ways to dispose of your old hard drives and ensure your personal ...

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

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You can just toss that old hard drive in a drawer, which is the cheapest way to be sure nobody will access it, but if you’d just like to be rid of it, I’d recommend destroying it. Jim Rossman / TNS I ...

Have an old computer lying around the house? Don't just throw it away. Computers house all sorts of toxins that are bad for the environment and all of us who live in it. Not to mention the personal ...

Between new smartphones and other highly anticipated devices rapidly being released on the market, many consumers find themselves with a stack of old devices. Maybe they're shoved away in a closer or ...

The threat of data loss, coupled with increasingly stringent environmental regulations, has IT pros rethinking their disposal methods for computer gear. Getting rid of obsolete IT gear isn’t as simple ...

I wrote about data sanitization using the IEEE P2883 standard back in 2022. This is a standard for sanitization of the data in storage devices using certified methods that work on each storage type.