by Shirly Chen, updated on 2017-02-07 to Mac Data Wipe

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Formatting is a prior method to delete all data from local/external hard drive or fix disk error. For Windows users, it is very easy to format a hard drive using built-in quick format feature. However, when a Mac user right-clicks a hard drive on Mac, he can’t see the quick format option. Especially for the new Mac users, it seems difficult to find a solution to format local hard drive or external hard drive under Mac OS. In this article, we will introduce some Mac disk formatting software tools to help Mac users easily and securely format hard drive, USB flash drive, memory card or other device under Mac OS.

Three Useful Disk Formatting Software for Mac

1. Super Eraser for Mac - best Mac Disk Format Software

Super Eraser for Mac is a very powerful tool to permanently erase data from Mac hard drive or storage media. It can easily format hard drives, storage devices and permanently erase all the data on the targeted media. It also can format SSD hard drive and erase data under Mac OS. Free download the best Mac disk formatting software - Super Eraser for Mac.

This mode ‘Wipe Hard Drive’ will help you format a selected hard drive/device and erase all data from it. You just need to select the hard drive you want to format, and then click on 'Wipe Now' button. Then Super Eraser for Mac will help you format and erase the selected hard drive/device. Please note that all the existing data and history data on the selected hard drive will be permanently removed, can’t be recovered by any data recovery software or manual data recovery service.

This Mac hard drive formatting tool also can erase free disk space to permanently erase deleted/lost data on the hard drive. This option is used for erasing deleted files and formatted files on your Mac, without affecting the existing data.

If you are going to sell, donate your Mac/device or just want to completely remove unwanted files and fix disk errors, Super Eraser for Mac is the best Mac disk formatting tool for you. It can help you regain a brand new disk.

Note: formatted data will be permanently lost, can’t be recovered by any software or method.

2. Mac Disk Utility

Note: formatted data can be recovered by data recovery software.

Disk Utility is a built-in app in macOS. When you open this app, it will show all the hard drives and devices on your Mac. You can use the erase function to format a hard drive or device. However, when the hard drive has been erased by Disk Utility, most of the formatted data can be recovered by data recovery software.

3. Start Menu for Mac

Note: formatted data can be recovered by data recovery software.

Start Menu for Mac is an all-in-one Mac manager. It offers a feature – format. You can run it on your Mac, and use it to format external hard drive or device on your Mac. It is the fastest way to format an external hard drive/device under Mac OS.

4. MacClean360

MacClean360 is one of the best disk cleaning and management software for Mac OS. It offers more than 9 tools to help you optimize and manage your Mac computer. The Disk Manager tool is able to list all hard drives and external devices on your Mac. Then you can choose one of the hard drive and format it by click on 'Format' button.

The 4 disk formatting software for Mac above can help you easily format hard drive, USB flash drive, memory card, and other storage media under Mac OS. However, when you format your hard drive with Super Eraser for Mac, all your data will be permanently lost. So please back up your important files before you run Super Eraser for Mac to format your hard drive or other device under Mac OS.

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Why Paragon Disk Wiper for Mac?

Paragon Disk Wiper for Mac allows to create a bootable USB-flash drive or external hard drive that will help you to completely erase a whole hard disk, a separate partition or just clean free space. After booting your Mac with the bootable media you will be able to use Wipe Wizard to irreversibly remove your confidential data.
Paragon Disk Wiper for Mac supports all Intel-based Macs, providing the possibility to quickly and efficiently sanitize the hard disks in order to protect valuable business information and also because there is, in the most countries, a legal obligation to do so.

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Key Features and Benefits

Features	Benefits
Support for Mac OS X	Works with OS X 10.7 and later.
Comprehensive wiping	Wipe exactly what you need – hard disks/separate partitions (primary, extended, logical).
Ten different disk sanitization algorithms support	Irreversibly destroy all on-disk data in compliance with major national government and military data erasure standards, as well as the most comprehensive academic wipe algorithms, thus providing maximum level of security (US DoD 5220.22-M, US Navy standards NAVSO P-5239-26, British HMG Infosec Standard No.5, German VSItR Standard, Peter Gutmann’s algorithm, Bruce Schneier’s algorithm, etc.)
Wiping SSD	Wipe SSDs of most manufacturers.
Powerful Paragon`s algorithm	Improved disk wiping technology (SSD Trim) guarantees irreversible secure data destruction on SSD storage devices.
Flexible customization option	Create your own wipe algorithm with minimal effort – define up to 4 wiping patterns, number of passes for each wiping pattern and for the group of patterns, thus resulting in over 40000 possible number of passes.
Efficient operation	Minimal effect on the system performance.
Easy to use	Simple wizard driven engine.
Basic partitioning operations (create, delete, format)	Optimize the management of your hard disks.
Wipe report with extended hardware and system information	Be well-informed about the results of the wipe operation to verify when wipe operations have been successfully accomplished.
Logging of bad blocks (corrupted sectors)	Be informed that these sectors may still contain classified information.
Support of latest HDD standards	Enjoy support of AFD (Advanced Format Drive), 2TB+ and non-512B sector size drives.
Supports any hard disk or flash memory	Support of large IDE, SCSI, SATA and GPT/UEFI-formatted hard disks, USB 1.0, USB 2.0, USB 3.0 flash memory dri