Electronics
3 Awesome Hard Disk Degaussers
Destroying your data is not as easy as just formatting your hard drive. You need to crush your hard drive and degauss it. Most of us many not need a hard drive crusher or degausser. But they could be very helpful for businesses. We have already covered hard drive crushers here in the past. Here are 3 tools you can use to degauss your hard drives:
Datastroyer 102-DG Disk Erasing Wand Degausser: a portable disk erasing wand degausser. It sanitizes 14″ disk packs and wipes your hard drives to a forensically irrecoverable state.
HD-3WXLÂ Hard Drive Degausser: it has a 10 second erasure cycle. Use it to erase standard height and laptop hard drives and tape media. It operates on standard wall outlet.
Hard Disk Degausser HC2300S: another device you can use to erase magnetic data almost instantaneously. It creates 11,000 Oersteds and can completely erase hard disks, floppy drives, and tape-based mediums.
These hard drive degaussers are not cheap but they do prevent information leakage. They might prove useful for businesses.