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OT! Destroying old hard drives and backup tapes |
Qarl |
Aug 2 2006, 09:17 PM
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I literally have about 4 dozen old hard drives (between 6 and 10 gigabytes each) and about 60 old backup tapes that I need to secure lyerase and destroy.
Can I go to my local surplus store and get a mega magnet (like the one you would retrieve crap off of the bottom of a lake using a rope) and demagnetize and erase them? They have medical information on them and I need to render the drives usesless and unreadable. I do not want to sit there for 6 hours witha sledge hammer and I don't have enough drill bits to drill through the platters? Will a heavy duty magnet work? What are my other options. |
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