The third situation is if you have a modern Mac either with the M1 processor or an Intel processor including the T2 chip. The second situation is if you have an older Intel Mac with a solid state drive but it's before Apple starting putting the T2 security chip inside the Macs. The first situation is if you have a much older Mac that has a spinning hard disk drive. Now exactly what you do depends on your Mac. So conventional wisdom says that before you donate, sell, or recycle a Mac you should do things to clean your data off of the internal drive so somebody can't get ahold of it and steal your information. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Let's take a look at what you should do to protect your data before you get rid of a Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Do You Need To Secure Wipe a Mac Drive? at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

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