What Is Hard Drive Degaussing?

Degaussing is a data sanitization procedure that destroys data by applying powerful magnetic fields. Here’s how the process works.
February 28, 2023

Do Magnets Damage Solid-State Drives?

No, magnets will not damage solid-state drives. However, changes in magnetic fields might cause data loss under certain circumstances. Strong magnetic fields can destroy data on hard disk drives (HDDs) and data tapes, for a simple reason: Those devices use...
February 27, 2023

How Windows Format Command Line Behavior Changed

I recently was asked to contribute to a discussion on the IT social community of Spiceworks. It started out as a question about disk formatting utilities, but by the end of the discussion, users were trying to determine what the...
November 12, 2015