disk wipe
Total storage erasure
A disk wipe is the complete erasure of data from a storage device, overwriting every sector to prevent recovery.
Unlike simple deletion, which leaves data retrievable, a proper wipe renders information unrecoverable: Before selling the laptop, I ran a disk wipe on the hard drive.
Also called a secure erase.
- eraseRemove recorded marks
- deleteRemove or erase
- formatArrangement and presentation style
- clean slateRecord wiped clear
- secureProtected from harm
data · personal information · hard drive · overwrite · shred · data destruction · sanitize · clean · destroy · recovery · magnetic · platter · degauss · partition · software · bleach · evidence · digital forensics
- disk managementformatting, partitioning, file systems, NTFS, FAT32
data preservation vs. destruction
disk wipedata backup
Stored duplicate of files
data preservation · data retention · system restore · data protection · archiving