This list of specifications below covers BCWipe Total WipeOut Standard and Enterprise Wizard Editions. Features available exclusively in the Enterprise edition are marked with EE


Supported platforms

  • x64 Intel / AMD BIOS and EFI systems, 
  • x86 Intel / AMD BIOS and EFI systems


  • x64 Intel Macs, incl. T2 Macs 
  • x64 M1 (Apple Silicon) Macs


  • Itanium EFI EE - Itanium - servers running Windows, HP-UX or Linux 
  • x64 SPARC EE - servers running Solaris or Linux 


Supported drive types

  • SSD
  • HDD
  • SSHD (Hybrid)
  • NAND (Removable)

Supported connection protocols

  • NVMe
  • m.2
  • SATA
  • USB
  • IDE
  • Firewire
  • SCSI
  • iSCSI EE
  • Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
  • SD/MMC/CF cards

Supported ATA-specific commands

  • ATA SECURE ERASE
  • TRIM
  • Reset Host Protected Area (HPA)
  • Reset Device Configuration Overlay (DCO)

Supported commands for NVMe drives

  • Write Zeroes
  • Deallocate (similar to ATA Trim)
  • User Data Erase
  • Cryptographic Erase

Supported wiping schemes

  • 1-pass zero TRIAL MODE
  • U.S. DoD 5220.22-M(ECE) - 7 passes
  • U.S. DoD 5220.22-M(E) - 3 passes
  • DoE M 205.1-2
  • German VSITR
  • Bruce Schneier's scheme
  • Peter Gutmann method
  • British HMG IS5
  • Canadian RCMP TSSIT OPS-II
  • NAVSO-P5239-26 (MFM,RLL)
  • Russian GOST R 50739-95
  • US Army AR380-19
  • One random pass
  • 3-pass NIST 800-88-3
  • 1-pass NIST 800-88-2
  • 1-pass NIST 800-88-1
  • 1-pass zero TRIAL MODE






Supported logging capabilities

  • USB stick
  • CIFS (Microsoft Networking or Samba share ) EE






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