Re: erasing hard drives [degausser]

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From: Aron Roberts (aron_at_socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 18 2003 - 14:35:45 PDT

At 14:24 -0700 2003-09-18, Mark Phillips wrote:
>We bought a magnetic degausser unit for tapes and hard drives, it
>wipes the data cleaner than any software tool could.

   FYI, Peter Gutmann's paper -- referenced in a previous post --
includes a detailed discussion of degaussing as a method of erasing
diskettes and other removable media, magnetic tapes, and hard drives.
(See the section "4. Other Methods of Erasing Magnetic Media.")

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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