Corrupt USB drive? Try these 3 fixes before you wipe it

You now have to back up your USB drive before you try to recover anything. You can do this in Disk Drill. Go to Extra Tools, then select your corrupted USB drive, and select Byte-to-Byte Backup.
Network World

IronKey adds remote wipe feature for USB drives

A new service called Silver Bullet from encrypted thumb-drive vendor IronKey will let administrators wipe out or lock the data on USB sticks in the field. Silver Bullet is a Web-based service that ...
Ars Technica

How tdo I low level format/zero wipe an external hard drive?

I have a laptop fujitsu hard drive in an external usb enclosure, and I'm looking for some type of utility to either low level format or zero wipe my external usb hard drive. Basically, whenever I try ...
Business Wire

BCWipe Total WipeOut from Jetico Can Remotely Erase Many Hard Drives in a Click

HELSINKI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jetico's new major release of their hard drive wiping software, BCWipe Total WipeOut, includes an exciting new feature: central management for both wiping and reporting ...
Ars Technica

Using terminal to erase external SSD hard drive

The disk in question is disk04 - a 128 GB SSD drive in an external USB enclosure. I booted the Macbook from a X.11 USB install drive and there was an internal SSD drive as well. a simple fdisk ...