The Ghosts of Your Files Haunt Old, Erased Hard Drives. Here’s How to Exorcise Them.

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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Simply deleting files won’t erase an external drive permanently

On an external drive, the delete key is more of a suggestion than a final verdict. Files that appear to vanish from a USB ...
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How To Format Your External Hard Drive For Mac

Apple's computers are available with a generous amount of hard drive space, from 256 GB all the way to 8 TB on high-end models. While that may be plenty of space for most users, video editing, ...
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You Can Now Format External Drives With an iPad or iPhone

Erase your USB drives and get them ready for a fresh start, right from your iPhone. First, you need an iPhone or iPad running iOS 18 or iPadOS 18. Follow these instructions to update your device, but ...