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

If you've bought a computer – laptop or desktop, Windows or Mac – in recent years you've likely come across SSDs, or solid state drives, often used as a selling point for the PC. As with most computer ...

Before you throw out that old desktop or laptop, consider upgrading its storage. Whether your computer uses a hard drive or an older solid-state drive (or SSD) it’s probably time to upgrade it. SSDs ...

If your desktop is running out of storage space on your current drive or you want to upgrade an existing hard disk drive to a far faster SSD, it's a really simple and ...

I can’t tell give you exact numbers because I don’t know either your computer or what SSD you’ll buy. But I can tell you this: The hard drive, with its mechanical moving parts, is almost certainly the ...

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Before you junk your old computer or external solid state drive, here’s how to thoroughly wipe all your data, because it’s ...

In context: Backblaze is a California-based company dealing with cloud storage and data backup services. Every year, the organization provides some interesting reliability data about the large fleet ...