#25 in Privacy & ComplianceUpdated 2026-08

Parted Magic

by Parted Magic · Bootable USB disk utility for secure erase, partitioning and cloning

20.4 — BenchRank score out of 100

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Overview

Parted Magic is a bootable disk utility that starts from a USB stick, optical disc or PXE server and runs entirely in memory, so the host system is not modified. It covers three jobs: NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 secure erase with a signed PDF certificate of destruction, partition editing with VisParted, and cloning or imaging with Parted Magic Clonezilla and ddrescue.

Best for: IT technicians and admins who need to erase, partition or clone drives on machines without an OS.
Pricing: No prices appear in the captured text; it states only that one licence covers unlimited drives with no per-seat or per-drive fees.

Strengths and trade-offs

Strengths

NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 erase with a signed PDF certificate
One licence covers unlimited drives, no per-seat or per-drive fees
Runs in memory from USB, so the host operating system is untouched
Boots under UEFI Secure Boot; SATA, NVMe, SAS, IDE, USB and eMMC

Trade-offs

Each machine must be taken offline and booted from the stick to use it
XFCE desktop runs as root on X11, with no privilege separation
exFAT, F2FS, JFS, ZFS and NILFS have limited support only
Needs 64-bit x86 with 2 GB RAM; no ARM or Apple silicon mentioned

How this score is made up

Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.

MCP support: 0 out of 100
Documentation: 0 out of 100
Agent friendliness: 65 out of 100
Changelog: 0 out of 100
Marketing site structure: 60 out of 100
Operational trust: 15 out of 100

Measured, but not part of the score

Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.

Openness: 60 out of 100
Maintenance: 100 out of 100

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