On an external drive, the delete key is more of a suggestion than a final verdict. Files that appear to vanish from a USB stick, portable SSD, or backup hard drive often linger in the background, ...

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 ...

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 ...

I and other people I know seem to each suffer from a similar problem across different brand and models of hard drive docks. The drive partition just one day disappears. The data is still there, but ...