What are the best macOS applications for wiping a hard drive or deleting files securely?

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Best macOS applications for wiping a hard drive or deleting files securely	Price	Last Updated
-- Disk Utility	Free	Oct 8, 2021
-- Cindori - Disk Sensei	$19.99	Dec 1, 2017
-- Cindori - Trim Enabler	$14.99	Dec 1, 2017

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Disk Utility

Top Con

Unreliable for creating NTFS/Fat32 formatted partitions

Especially if user wants to create bootable partitions. See More

Top Pro

Native to macOS

Disk Utility is included in macOS — it is natively integrated and is fairly easy to use. See More

RageGamer's Experience

It's built in... There's definitely tutorials online. Not sure if it can do a secure erase, so you might have to use something like DBAN (HDD only). See More

Top Pro

Disk image and volume encryption

You can create a disk image that requires a password to mount. It can use a different filesystem than OS X, like exFAT, that can be used to move files between Windows and OS X. Additionally, you can encrypt file volumes by right-clicking and selecting encrypt. See More

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Cindori - Disk Sensei

Top Pro

Set it and leave it.

It works in the background. See More

Top Con

No telling or confirmation whether deleted files have been written over

Due to the nature of how TRIM works, deleted files do not immediately get overwritten. It just earmarked deleted files to be overwritten first when new files are created or as existing files grow. See More

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Cindori - Trim Enabler

Top Pro

Set it and leave it.

It works in the background. See More

Top Con

No telling or confirmation whether deleted files have been written over

Due to the nature of how TRIM works, deleted files do not immediately get overwritten. It just earmarkes deleted files to be overwritten first when new files are created or as existing files grow. See More

Top Con

Expensive for what you get

For just a few dollars one can purchase Cindori's flagship product Disk Sensei. There's also a simple command line argument one can issue. Read more on howtogeek.com for the details. See More

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What are the best macOS applications for wiping a hard drive or deleting files securely?

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Disk Utility

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My Recommendation for Disk Utility

Unreliable for creating NTFS/Fat32 formatted partitions

Native to macOS

Disk image and volume encryption

Cindori - Disk Sensei

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My Recommendation for Cindori - Disk Sensei

Set it and leave it.

No telling or confirmation whether deleted files have been written over

Cindori - Trim Enabler

My Recommendation for Cindori - Trim Enabler

My Recommendation for Cindori - Trim Enabler

Set it and leave it.

No telling or confirmation whether deleted files have been written over

Expensive for what you get

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