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HOWEVER, any decent secure data erase program which overwrites the data surface of your hard drive will make the data on the drive almost completely impossible to recover.
HDD makers provide their own specialized diagnostics programs such as Seagate SeaTools or Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics that include secure data erase, or zero-fill, functionality.
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Cybersecurity is one part hardened data, encrypted data and secure data transport.
Taking the debate to a level of authoritative data erases the potential for capricious decision making.
The Quick Format option does not affect how securely the data is erased.
Executing the Secure Erase command on either a HDD or SDD will destroy data from all internal locations, returning it to a factory default state.
He advises looking for the drives that have a so-called secure erase feature, which often involves 128-bit encryption.
Gparted and Ubuntu live CDs provide a bootable Linux system of disk utilities including secure erase.
They simply zeroize and generate a new random encryption key each time a secure erase is done.
Note that the secure erase options will not be available for SSDs.
The secure erase options offered for HDDs by macOS' Disk Utility are not available for SSDs.
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