Free Paragon Disk Wiper 15 for Mac OS X

Paragon Software Group Corp.(PSG) announces Disk Wiper 15 for Mac OS X free, an utility to clean HDDs and SSDs or permanently erase critical data on separate partitions or entire HDDs.

As research has shown, the TRIM command to delete data on the entire drive or individual volumes does not completely remove all traces of data. Trimming is accomplished by a delete operation in relatively large blocks while remnants and entire small files remain intact; some data still stays on the drive in segments. Besides, all storage service areas containing active user data remain intact.

To be confident your data on SSD doesn’t fall into the wrong hands, you have two options: either physically shred your SSD into pieces that are small enough that a single chip cannot escape damage, or use a specialized data erasure utility that supports solid state drives, like Disk Wiper for Mac. Paragon’s solution is a free utility that performs a secure and permanent wipe within 20-30s.

Wiping is not accomplished under Mac OS X, but from a special Linux-based flash stick that can be created from the program. After booting the Mac from this device, the Wipe Wizard can irreversibly remove confidential data in a few steps. Multiple sanitization methods are available: ‘SSD Trim’ (recommended for SSDs), selecting a specific algorithm, or a user-created method. Unlike traditional HDD-based wiping methods, ‘SSD Trim’ works quickly and is completely safe for SSDs.

Features at glance:

Creates a bootable wiping media in few clicks
Wipe what you need – the entire HDD or separate partitions (primary, extended, logical)
Wipes data even if the Mac fails to boot
Supports ten different disk sanitization algorithms
SSD Trim algorithm guarantees irreversible secure data destruction on SSD storage devices without causing unnecessary and undesirable wear
Flexible customization options allow to create your own wipe algorithm with minimal effort – define up to four wiping patterns, number of passes for each wiping pattern and for the group of patterns, thus resulting in over 40000 possible number of passes
Wipe report with extended hardware and system information to verify the accomplishment of the wipe operation

Paragon Mac ToolBox portal
Mac ToolBox web portal makes it to find which of the company’s products can be used to solve particular Mac-related problems. For example, a user who wishes to reallocate disk space between OS X and Windows after using Boot Camp is directed to Camptune X software. Or if the issue involves the use of an external drive in NTFS format, the Mac ToolBox reveals that NTFS for Mac 12 software provides full R/W access. Some of the tools described in the Mac ToolBox are available free of charge, including Boot Camp Backup free to backup Windows under OS X, while all commercial products are available on a time-limited demo basis.

Disk Wiper 15 for Mac OS X free supports all OS X 10.6 and higher.

Disk Wiper 15 for Mac OS X free is available to download.