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Paragon Hard Disk Manager vs nwipe: catalog facts
Paragon Hard Disk Manager	nwipe
Paid A paid licence is required.	Free The open-source application is available without a license fee.
Windows	Linux
Partitioning, imaging, migration and wiping in a single supported product Builds a bootable recovery medium from within the application	Parallel drive erasure with a text interface
Paid licence with no free tier Windows only	Erasure destroys the selected drives' contents.
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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