Compare DriveScrubber vs. Secure Eraser

When selling, donating, or recycling your computer, it’s crucial to safeguard your personal information by utilizing both a hard drive eraser and a hard drive scrubber. DriveScrubber ensures complete and permanent deletion of your hard drive data, adhering to and surpassing the security benchmarks set by the Department of Defense, which guarantees that your confidential files are irretrievable. Employing a hard drive eraser allows you to protect sensitive information from potential threats by thoroughly removing data prior to the resale or disposal of your PC. Meanwhile, a hard drive scrubber effectively cleans drives that have been compromised by persistent spyware or viruses. With customizable options available, users can adjust the security levels for data wiping, ranging from quick erasure to techniques that include electron microscopy and magnetic field residue detection, thus providing comprehensive control over the process. The software also features scalable capabilities such as batch-wiping and options to pause, cancel, or resume operations while preserving the drive's boot and partition structures, ensuring a seamless experience. Protect your privacy and ensure data integrity by using these advanced tools when managing your old technology.

Secure Eraser: Secure Data Deletion, Shredders Your Files & Folders. Just because it has been removed from your hard drive doesn't mean that it is gone forever. Anyone can restore the information as long as it was not overwritten. It becomes more difficult if the computer has been resold, or given away. Secure Eraser employs the most well-known method of data disposal. It overwrites sensitive information so that it cannot be recovered even with specialized software. Our award-winning solutions for permanently destroying data eliminate cross-references that may leave traces of deleted files within the allocation table of your hard disk. This Windows software is easy to use and can overwrite sensitive data up to 35 times, regardless of whether they're files, folders or drives, recycle bins, or traces of surfing. You can also delete files that you have already deleted but not for good.