FileVault

But there is a modern shortcut that kind of takes care of the issue for you.

If you keep your drive encrypted, BitLocker or FileVault on macOS, then it really doesn't matter [laughs] what's on the drive because it is just unreadable to any person.

So deleting those files and deleting them the proper way used to be a big part of reformatting a drive.

I remember, what was the way I was going to reformat the drive? Was it to write zeros to the entirety of the hard drive to pr- uh, proper secure erase, or was it just a quick one that I would then, you know, write over with new, with new data? It's a little bit different these days, but encryption by default, which of course can happen a lot faster on modern drives, means that even if someone else were to get access to those files, they're not as big of an issue.

But there is a modern shortcut that kind of takes care of the issue for you.

If you keep your drive encrypted, BitLocker or FileVault on macOS, then it really doesn't matter [laughs] what's on the drive because it is just unreadable to any person.

So deleting those files and deleting them the proper way used to be a big part of reformatting a drive.

I remember, what was the way I was going to reformat the drive? Was it to write zeros to the entirety of the hard drive to a pr- a proper secure erase, or was it just a quick one that I would then, you know, write over with new, with new data? It's a little bit different these days.

But there is a modern shortcut that kind of takes care of the issue for you.

If you keep your drive encrypted, BitLocker or FileVault on macOS, then it really doesn't matter what's on the drive because it is just unreadable to any person.

So deleting those files and deleting them the proper way used to be a big part of reformatting a drive.

I remember what was the way I was going to reformat the drive.

But there is a modern shortcut that kind of takes care of the issue for you.

If you keep your drive encrypted, BitLocker or FileVault on macOS, then it really doesn't matter what's on the drive because it is just unreadable to any person.

So deleting those files and deleting them the proper way used to be a big part of reformatting a drive.

I remember what was the way I was going to reformat the drive.

But there is a modern shortcut that kind of takes care of the issue for you.

If you keep your drive encrypted, BitLocker or FileVault on macOS, then it really doesn't matter what's on the drive because it is just unreadable to any person.

So deleting those files and deleting them the proper way used to be a big part of reformatting a drive.

I remember what was the way I was going to reformat the drive.