Don't toss that drive yet! Learn how to safely dispose of old hard drives using data wiping tools and physical destruction methods to protect your privacy.

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

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 ...

To donate to Goodwill, use Dell's How to Recycle page to find a drop-off location. You can also rid of your old computer through Best Buy, either over the mail or in person. To recycle the computer, ...

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.

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