Erasing personal data from hard drives or solid-state drives

Over the years I have ended up with roughly a half dozen computers in various stages of decay. Two water-damaged Macbooks. An old HP laptop my dad handed down to me to “make faster and find a home for”. A gaming desktop from college that was caked in dust and shorted when powered up ten years later. One task I had to perform for all these machines was to collect and remove any personal data from internal storage (hard drives/solid-state drives)....

April 12, 2021 · 4 min · Shariq Jamil