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DriveScrubber vs Strix Disk Cleaner

DriveScrubber

iolo.com

Strix Disk Cleaner

strix-tool.github.io

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FigureDriveScrubberStrix Disk Cleaner
Price from—Free
Free plan—Yes
Free trial——
Open source—Yes
WindowsYesYes
Linux—Yes
Plans published11
Spec score · Disk Wiping Software6.7 (#27)8.0 (#11)

Plans

DriveScrubber

  • DriveScrubber$34.95, paid once

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Strix Disk Cleaner

  • FreeFree

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In their own words

DriveScrubber

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Strix Disk Cleaner

Strix Disk Cleaner is a free tool for permanently wiping whole drives on Windows and Linux. It uses hardware sanitize where possible or multi-pass overwriting, and detects SSDs to recommend hardware sanitization because wear-levelling can make overwriting unreliable. The Windows edition provides a graphical interface and a printable destruction certificate; the Linux edition is a unit-tested command-line eraser. It cannot target individual files: its scope is whole drives. To reduce accidental selection, the system disk and mounted disks are unavailable, and destructive actions require typed confirmation. The tool makes no network calls and requires no account. SHA-256 checksums are published with each release for download verification. Builds are not yet code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may warn on first run. The Free plan costs nothing and is open-source under the MIT license. The product page links to source code, documentation, and a security guide.

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