How to secure dispose of old storage media, like hard drives and SSDs

Macworld
Aug 23, 2018, 8:00 am684 pts
Macworld reader Phil wisely asks how to erase securely the data on old Macs and external drives before sending them off to electronics recycling centers. He asks about hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), and RAM. We sometimes feel our digital memories are highly transient, given how readily a…

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