[rescue] Degaussing Drives?

[Thomas Gallaway]

Hi

I for fact know the pentagon for example grind drives to dust
then throw them in acid to make sure nothing is left over.

If you really have to kill the drives, take a NAIL and NAIL
the drive. That will help but i'd rather have you send me the
drives and "i will take care" of your "disposal" needs.

Got a couple of boxes that are willing to erase the drives
for you hehe.

Cja,
       Thomas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Chu" <bob01 at purdue.edu>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 1:52 AM
Subject: [rescue] Degaussing Drives?


> Hi,
>
> Anyone out there know much about Degausing Hard Drives?
> The Story is:
> At my workplace, they need 30 or so Hard Drives low level formatted.
> They delegated this task to me, however his would take forever
> (considering I only work about 10 hours a week as a Student Worker, and 1
> available SCSI card for me to do the task)  While walking around in the
> Tech shop (Equipment/Electronics Maintenance) I bumped into an odd device,
> that the Technicians told me is a Degausser used back in the 80's to clean
> tapes (no one who is around now, actually seen it used) .  So I got the
> idea perhaps this will work on Hard Drives.  But
> before I begin, I just wanted to see if anyone knows anything about this
> kind of stuff.  Will this permantly damage hard drives (ie. screwing the
> motor up, Heads, etc).  How long do I need to leave a hard drive on it to
> make the data on the drive corrupted?  The degausser has all sorts of
> user put labels warning about fuse blowings after 4 mins of continuous
> use, etc, so I assume its pretty powerful?  The degausser is a Apex Model
> 111, Cat no. 13634-01 in case anyones intrested.
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> Bob
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