Destroy Hard Drive Data with the Garner HD-3 Degausser
December 19, 2009 by
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i can do that for free with a magnet
I have an old tap degausser i found in a resale shop. I was like $1 ok. In an old electronics class we actually fixed a CRT a kid took a magnet to. yeah if you microwaved it that would do the trick
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degaussing is basically a giant magnet which generates a magnetic field to wipe out the data. A typical degausser can generate up to 14,000 Gauss the entire planet generates about 0.3 to 0.6 gauss. Hence its a very powerful magnetic field
degaussing isn’t always 100% secure data destruction. The best way is to smash or shred it up into pieces.
nice but modern hard drives come with an ‘always on’ hardware encryption that heavily encrypts HDD data in real time and is transparent to the user. to destroy the date the user simply has to delete the encryption key from the ROM on the circuit board.
fluctuates a very strong magnetic field across it I guess.
After seeing this video I looked up degaussing on youtube… it gave me a pretty good idea of what it is… but your explanation makes it allot better I think. I used to work in an electronics repair place and just for fun I would use the really strong magnets I pulled out of microwaves and play with the CRT TV’s… only the old ones of course, others wise you get angry people coming back saying there TV is screwed lol
Old CRTs’ make a big magnetic field (which is why the corner of a CRT screen can go funny colors on the corners of the screen). So, degaussing is basically a huge magnetic field to counter-act the one the crt made. This “degausser” is basically a big electromagnet.
im sorry, but what exactly is degaussing? And is that just to wipe the memory or to actually destroy it?
i prefer to shred it in a SSI shredder or just MICROWAVE IT
i think smashing is the more fun way to kill a harddrive
Very good, but it would be perfect an improve in the ejecting device,
because the hard drive may leave out demagnetized but ugly damaged by a strike.