But as a home user they are still affordable enough that at the lower end I could see buying one simply due to the ease of use. They are so fast that many business / enterprise level users use them before discarding computers. Hardware based disk wiping solutions are much faster and easier the software based solutions.

Hardware Based Disk Erase Solutions #1 Recommended Tool – Software based solutions like DBAN, Paragon and WipeDrive are typically much slower than hardware based solutions. However, they are cheaper than hardware based solutions. They usually work with most systems and can be a little more difficult to figure out. Software based solutions will need to be ran from a disk or USB flash drive. Sometime cheaper on Amazon but check their website price here. WipeDrive is a long time favorite of mine.Paragon has a bare-bones disk wipe package but I recommend the upgrade to Manager 15, this will give you SSD and HDD wipe plus backup and other PC utilities.

( Buy the CD here if you can’t burn it to disk yourself) Requires a working computer that can boot to disk or flash drive. DBAN – free open source and works for a lot of systems.Software Disk Erase Solutionsīut with so many open source and commercial software based solutions to erase your hard drive one might wonder what is the best and why? Lets review my top solutions one can use to nuke your hard drive. Darik’s boot and nuke is Free Software one can use to boot and nuke your HDD (hard drive). Commercial products often come with support where as open source, not so much. Keep in mind DBAN is open source and free. In this review of DBAN I mention that it’s not the most user friendly product, but if you give it a couple stabs more often than not you’ll succeed.

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