WipeDisk is a security and privacy application designed to securely and permanently erase data from hard drives and other media. It is designed to be used in a variety of situations, such as: • Computer recycling or disposal. • Before selling, donating, or giving away a computer. • Before returning a leased computer. • Before sharing a computer with multiple users. WipeDisk works by overwriting all the data on the hard drive several times with random data. This process is designed to make the data completely unrecoverable, ensuring that any personal or sensitive information stored on the hard drive will remain private and secure. WipeDisk also supports multiple hard drives, and can be used to wipe multiple drives at once. Additionally, it can be used to erase USB flash drives, external hard drives, and other types of removable media.
The discontinued DBAN was last updated in June 2015 and does not support SSD (SATA secure erase). The official website is now pushing users to use Blancco Drive Eraser, a commercial disk wiping tool.