Data Erasure And Erasure Verification Software For Retired Drives

Clarabyte, operating as Clarabyte Solutions LLC, makes secure data destruction software for organizations and individuals that need to prove information is gone before hardware leaves their control. Its stated markets are government, healthcare, finance, retail, education, IT asset disposition firms and recyclers, and Microsoft Refurbishers, alongside small businesses and home users. The product line splits into ClaraWipe Home for consumers, ClaraWipe Pro for professional and volume use, and ClaraCheck, a free erasure verification tool.

ClaraWipe boots from USB media and overwrites the contents of hard drives and external storage repeatedly, removing the operating system, installed programs, and user data so that recovery tools cannot reconstruct them. Reformatting a disk or reinstalling an operating system leaves recoverable traces; overwriting removes them. Because the wipe runs outside the installed operating system, it also clears persistent malware. ClaraWipe Pro is sold in license blocks with per-use pricing, and each Home USB can wipe up to three separate drives.

ClaraCheck handles the verification half of the job, testing every region of a drive including the Host Protected Area and Device Configuration Overlay, areas that many erasure tools skip. Drives are detected automatically before the machine boots, which removes the human error of pulling disks by hand or missing a second drive. It can validate work done by any erasure tool, covers desktops, laptops, servers, RAID configurations, and SSDs, and produces customizable audit reports aligned to NIST 800-88 R2, e-Stewards, NAID, and ADISA.