Less of an option and more of choosing the right tool to do the trick.
In day-to-day life I might not care how files are deleted. But when I intend to sell my drive on ebay or so I would make sure that really all the data ia gone.
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xnx@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Where do people see a secure erase option?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 months ago
xnx@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
But how do you choose secure erase? A program or what
Oisteink@feddit.nl 5 months ago
There’s likely usb-keys to boot
Trail@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
This is an option in the BIOS (UEFI) of certain PCs. I can confirm it exists on a number of HP Elitebook models.