In this video we take a look at how, from within macOS you can perform a secure wipe on a hard drive. The main aim of this process, is to ensure that any data that was stored on a hard drive remains secure and can not be recovered or restored.
Note: If you need to secure wipe a Solid State Drive (SSD), you should not use the technique shown in this video. This is because performing this sort of wipe on an SSD will reduce its life expectancy. Instead we recommend that you simply encrypt the whole of the SSD, and then format that drive. This is because the encryption key will have been lost after you format the drive, so any data should be near impossible to recover.
