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The Best way to erase / destroy data on a hard drive
What do you picture when you think of “destruction?” Hard drives can be destroyed in a variety of ways: pounded with an ax, shredded between metal teeth, dropped from a spaceship, and STILL contain data. There is only one good way to eliminate all data from a hard drive: degauss it. A degausser is a machine that generates a magnetic field for erasing magnetic storage media, such as hard drives and tape. If the gauss is sufficiently more powerful than the coercivity (resistance to being erased) of the drive,
As our world becomes increasingly digitized, the importance of protecting personal data has become more critical than ever. May 25th marks the five-year anniversary of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which has since changed the way organizations within the[…]