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: Entirely erases a physical or logical drive, which is ideal before selling or disposing of a computer.

: Includes options to automatically shut down the computer once a lengthy wiping process is complete—a useful feature for multi-terabyte drives that may take hours or days to finish.

: A US Department of Defense standard that overwrites data multiple times with specific patterns. hardwipe-5-0-7-full-version

: The fastest method, filling the drive with 0s to prevent basic recovery.

: While multi-pass wipes are safer, Hardwipe is optimized to run at the maximum sequential speed the hardware allows, typically exceeding 100 MiB/s on healthy drives. Usage Considerations : Entirely erases a physical or logical drive,

: Overwrites the "unused" parts of a disk where traces of previously deleted files may still exist.

: Permanently deletes specific items without affecting the rest of the drive. : The fastest method, filling the drive with

Hardwipe provides several distinct modes for data destruction: