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| From | Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: What is the universal (world wide) understanding behind degaussing harddisks? |
| Date | 2018-04-02 17:50 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <vA9Sx-3fF-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <vA80p-20G-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
Degaussing a hard drive will render it inoperative. It's also relatively hard to do/requires special equipment. (Just waving a refrigerator magnet around isn't going to do it.) Degaussing should be understood as a final step before discarding equipment. (And, for what it's worth, it's not a process I generally favor because it's hard to verify that the data on the disk has actually been erased; in most cases I'd recommend physical destruction over degaussing.) Mike Stone
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