The right way to wipe an external drive depends heavily on what is inside the enclosure. A Super User thread on reinstalling Linux from a USB stick spells this out clearly, the best way to wipe a ...

A new service called Silver Bullet from encrypted thumb-drive vendor IronKey will let administrators wipe out or lock the data on USB sticks in the field. Silver Bullet is a Web-based service that ...

TL;DR: Permanently erase files and folders with military-grade security using the Data Shredder Stick—just $29.99 with free shipping. Some not-so-known info is that hitting “delete” doesn’t actually ...

The disk in question is disk04 - a 128 GB SSD drive in an external USB enclosure. I booted the Macbook from a X.11 USB install drive and there was an internal SSD drive as well. a simple fdisk ...

I need to use software to securely wipe a USB key, and it has to be good enough for specific compliance organizations. All the secure wipe software I've seen only support wiping physical hard drives.