It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nikcolafizzzz on 2025-03-26 14:45:21.

What's the best windows formatting tool currently for wiping a used disk completely for archival purposes ?

I have couple of very old wd black 50ogb internal hdds that I got off off used market which I would like to completely wipe before starting to use em for archival purposes .

Is the windows disk management tool enough ? Is command line disklart better ? Or should I be using tools like rufus or lowleveldiskformatting tool by hdd guru or any other software which cleans up disks proper and aligns sectors well ?

What's the best tool / software to completely wipe and old used disk on windows which isn't too complicated and wudnt cause much issues / harm with a few disks plugged in ?

Regards ,

ColaFizz