List of data-erasing software

This is a list of utilities for performing data erasure.

Name Developer Licensing Operating system required to run Maintained? Supported wipe methods Reports
BleachBit GNU General Public License Windows, Linux Yes external[1] on screen, Copy and Paste-able
CBL Data Shredder CBL Data Recovery Technologies Freeware Windows Yes external[2] ?
CCleaner Piriform Trialware Windows, OS X Yes external[3] ?
Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) Darik Horn GNU General Public License OS independent, based on Linux No external[4] ?
dd[5][6] Same as host OS Unix Yes external not directly supported without scripting
Disk Utility Apple Commercial proprietary software OS X Yes external[7] ?
Eraser Heidi Computers Limited GNU GPL v3 Windows Yes external[8] ?
HDDerase University of California, San Diego Freeware OS independent, based on DOS No internal[9] ?
hdparm Mark Lord BSD license Linux Yes internal[10] not directly supported without scripting
nwipe Martijn van Brummelen GNU GPL v2 Linux Yes external Yes
Parted_Magic Patrick Verner, Parted Magic LLC uses mostly GPL components with published source, a few proprietary components, and fee for media/download[11][12] OS independent, based on Slackware Linux Yes internal, external[13] CSV, TXT, and extended TXT[14]
shred GNU Project GNU GPL v3 Unix Yes external[15] not directly supported without scripting
ShredIt Mireth Technology, Burningthumb Software Trialware Windows, OS X Yes ? ?
srm Dirk Jagdmann MIT License[16] Unix Yes external not directly supported without scripting
Zeero proprietary software Tru64 UNIX No ? not directly supported without scripting

References
  1. "BleachBit Features". Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  2. "CBL Data Shredder Features". Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  3. "CCleaner Features". Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  4. "DBAN / Blancco Feature Comparison". Archived from the original on 2 April 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  5. Elliot, Duncan (11 November 2009). "Using "dd" and "urandom" to write random data to a disk". Duncan Elliot's blog. IBM. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
  6. Hodgetts, Benjamin (4 December 2010). "Securely Wiping (Zero Writing) a Drive". Robot Butler. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
  7. "OS X: About Disk Utility's erase free space feature". Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  8. "Appendix A: Erasure Methods". Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  9. "HDDErase Readme". Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  10. "kernel.org ATA wiki". Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  11. "Parted Magic software components". Parted Magic software list. 3 April 2016.
  12. "Parted Magic source code". Parted Magic source code. Archived from the original on 11 April 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  13. "Parted Magic Secure Erase". Parted Magic web site. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  14. "Parted Magic Secure Erase". Parted Magic web site. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  15. "shred invocation". Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  16. "secure rm". SourceForge. Dice Holdings. 31 January 2014.

See also
  • List of data recovery software
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