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Re: Degausser recommendations
From: Ken Connelly <Ken.Connelly () UNI EDU>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 09:59:23 -0500
Chris Edwards wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Ben Woelk wrote: | One of the drivers for purchasing a degausser is to be able to remove | information from damaged hard drives before disposing of them or returning | them to the computer vendor when erasure is not an option. Yep - the concern is for a failed disk, where we can't erase it using regular computer-based erasing software. If the disk is returned to vendor, they may fix it and thus have access to our data, and/or give it to another customer. Sort of related, does anyone know the effects of degaussing a working HD ? Let's assume the data is indeed destroyed. Is the drive then fine to re-use, perhaps after a reformat? Or, is it rendered unusable or unreliable by the degaussing ? If so then there would seem little benefit in degaussing then returning to vendor, as such drive would be useless to the vendor. You might as well keep it (and take the cost hit). Chris -- Chris Edwards, Glasgow University Computing Service
Nuking a drive with a high-powered degausser may render the drive unusable, but I don't see how that is your problem. -- - Ken ================================================================= Ken Connelly Associate Director, Security and Systems ITS Network Services University of Northern Iowa email: Ken.Connelly () uni edu p: (319) 273-5850 f: (319) 273-7373
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- Degausser recommendations Ben Woelk (May 01)
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- Re: Degausser recommendations InfoSec (May 01)
- Re: Degausser recommendations Brian Epstein (May 02)
- Re: Degausser recommendations InfoSec (May 02)
- Re: Degausser recommendations Chris Steele (May 02)
- Re: Degausser recommendations Kevin Shalla (May 02)
- Re: Degausser recommendations Jeff Kell (May 02)
- Re: Degausser recommendations Ben Woelk (May 03)
- Re: Degausser recommendations Chris Edwards (May 03)
- Re: Degausser recommendations Ken Connelly (May 03)
- Re: Degausser recommendations InfoSec (May 03)
- Re: Degausser recommendations Chris Edwards (May 03)
- Re: Degausser recommendations Ben Woelk (May 04)
- Re: Degausser recommendations Alan Amesbury (May 04)