Wiping an entire hard drive
Digital data erasure has been there since the time when people started realizing the need for protection of confidential and personal data. Though the security concern about confidential and personal data being misused was not taken so seriously in the beginning, with the increase in number of data misuse cases, the need for protection of data has gained more prominence.
There are various ways of getting rid of data on your hard drive. This involves both physical and logical methods of permanent erasure of data from your hard drive. Physical methods of data erasure include Degaussing, which is a method by which the magnetic field of a hard drive is reduced or destroyed, thereby making the hard drive unreadable. This is a good method of data erasure, but it results in a damaged hard drive, which cannot be used further for data storage.
But in case of logical data erasure, not only is there an assurance of complete data erasure, but there is also no physical damage that is done to the hard drive. This has made logical data erasure software a much sought after tool in today’s new age computing world.
Logical data erasure can again be done in two ways namely, by getting rid of files one at a time, or performing an erasure of the entire hard disk. In case you want to get rid of only a limited number of files, it is always better to make use of REMO Shredder software. If you want to completely erase your hard drive at one go, it is suggested that you make use of REMO Data Sanitizer for erasure of data. This data erasure software makes use of nine different sanitization standards for permanently wiping data from hard drive.