Jim Rossman explains what to do with old hard drives, from secure data erasure to physical destruction and recycling options.

What can you do with a personal computer when you’re ready for it to go to another owner or to the electronics recycler?

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Jetico released an update of BCWipe Total WipeOut. Addressing concerns of meeting the NIST hard drive wipe requirements, the new version of the software allows users ...

If you have hard drives that no longer serve you, maybe due to limited storage or finicky operation, it might be time to finally get rid of them. First, if it does still work, consider ways you can ...