Wade Sun is an inventor who came up with the idea for the Compact Disk Eraser. It is a small device that has a tiny blade that gets rid of data stored on compact discs. This would not be very valuable ...

Destroy your optical media like CDs and DVDs without the fuss or mess with the portable and lightweight Disc Eraser gadget. The Disc Eraser is a pocket-sized plastic apparatus that will make your CD ...

I just got the Disc Eraser in the mail and took a second out of my lunch to give it a quick, right-out-of-the-box review. Looks like it does its job pretty well. It cuts right through optical media ...

In a recent study, a research team purchased roughly 100 hard disks off eBay and found half of them to contain sensitive information, including insurance records, biographical information about ...

If you’re ready to invest in a new computer, and your thinking about donating your old computer to a charity, local group or school, it’s important to make sure your computer’s hard drive is ...

A reader recently contacted us with a question regarding her decision to recycle an older iMac computer. She wanted to know how she could clear/reformat the hard drive, but didn't have the disks that ...

If you have purchased a new Mac or have upgraded your hard drive on an older Mac, you may find when accessing the option to erase free disk space using Apple's Disk Utility that the controls for doing ...

You may already know that "deleting" a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data? No? Then read on. What do you mean ...

“Better safe than sorry.” As computers become more and more acommodity item, with a new machine replacing an old every fewyears, it is easy to forget about all that data left behind. To ...

Carmela writes in with a question after wiping a 2010 MacBook Pro and reinstalling macOS: I wanted to restore it to factory settings, but while erasing the disk I erased not only “Macintosh HD” but ...

I was already tired, and then my generally lovely boys gave me a hard time bathing and getting to bed while my wife, Lynn, was out. Finally the kids passed out, and I moved on to backing up Lynn’s ...