"Erase Free Space" missing from Disk Utility - Other options?

[TitusVorenus]

I just found out that one of Apple's "improvements" was to remove the erase free space feature from disk utility. I understand that it's not desired to use this on modern SSDs. I want it for regular hard disks.

What are the options now that this feature has been removed from OSX?

 

[Tech198]

It was removed from High Sierra, but Apple called it out as "we removed it due to SSD doing their own cleaning up"

There is still a need if you want to do it immediately. One could still say for 'privacy reasons'

You can still secure erase from Terminal,

diskutil secureerase freespace

to view syntax.

or just use CCCleaner has an option

 

[Fishrrman]

Older versions of Drive Genius have this option (DG calls it "shred").
Not sure how this will work under APFS (I don't use APFS).