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> OT! Destroying old hard drives and backup tapes
Qarl
post 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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Qarl   OT! Destroying old hard drives and backup tapes   Aug 2 2006, 09:17 PM
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