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Re: Macintosh wiping (but why)

Subject: Re: Macintosh wiping (but why)
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:58:45 -0500
Not that I'm a hard drive expert or anything -- but I wonder why would question the degausser's ability to work on hard drives of a certain modernity or capacity.

I have no idea about the assurance these things come with regarding data security -- but we did use them to wipe drives a few years back at a college -- not for disposal, just to clean the machine out for another department.

-Chris

Ivan Krstic wrote:
Greg Freemyer wrote:

The're available, they are just the size of a small refridgerator and
need a dedicated circuit.


It's been a while since the subject matter really interested me, and it seems the degaussers have gotten quite a bit more powerful over the years. Perhaps someone with more current knowledge of hard drive engineering can pitch in here, but I'm not sure even a 4000 Oersted degausser is enough to wipe the most modern generations of hard drives (say, 250GB and above).

-IK

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