Erasing Data
You probably don’t have an idea that deleted data can be easily recovered by novice, while pros can retrieve data
even from a disk destroyed by mechanical means. Your private data is yours alone and should not be exposed to
third party in any way. This can be achieved by erasing your storage device.
- Click Disks & Volumes on the sidebar.
- Left click a volume or disk you’d like to erase completely in the working area, then select Wipe data on the
sidebar. If you need to wipe remnants of deleted files and folders only, select Wipe free space. - Change the default wipe options, if necessary.
- Select a specific data erasure algorithm or create your own method.
Please note that the SSD Trim option becomes available in the wizard, if our program detects one or
several SSD (NVME SSD) drives in your system. We highly recommend you not to apply traditional
HDD-based wiping algorithms for your solid state drives. First, the data wiping eats up write cycles,
which are limited for SSD. Second, none of traditional erasure software is able to control the specific
region the data is written to, as this is controlled by SSD controllers. Thus the data wiping doesn’t
guarantee complete data destruction on SSD.