HD-3 Hard Drive Degausser

The HD-3 is the newest and most innovative product in the Garner line of degaussers. The HD-3 erases hard drives and high coercivity tape media including all formats of LTO (1, 2, and 3), SuperDLT I & II, DLT, 9940, 3592, AIT, 8mm and more, all without any adapters. With a continuous duty rating (no cooling necessary) and 10 second cycle time, even large quantities of media can be erased in a very short period of time.

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• magnetic

[phil123454321]

does this destroy the hard drive or "erase" it?

[n7il]

It erases EVERYTHING from the platters, including the servo tracks. When the drive slides out the exit, it is DESTROYED.

-Thanks for asking.

[grope4luna]

Phil is right. The drive is rendered unusable at that point.

[WaterCrane]

Clean and efficient, well, as long as you dispose of the dead-weight hard drive properly.

[Watcher3223]

@i8246i

A thorough degaussing will completely erase ALL data, including low level formatting necessary for the drive to function. Without low level formatting, the drive is a paperweight.

Take a degaussed platter out and you'll find that there's nothing to recover; the binary arrangement that makes up both levels of formatting and data will have been completely randomized into oblivion, like scrambling eggs.

Recovery at that point is getting a new drive and restoring from a recent back up.

[Watcher3223]

@i8246i

'Because even if you partially delete data, or 'degauss' it, there is still a chance for someone to take the platters (even after crushed) and possibly extract some data.'

If you degauss the platters to the point where you obliterate all low level formatting, you've completely erased everything contained in the high level formatting, including all data contained within it, in the process.

Without low level, there is no high level because the low level is a foundation.

[i8246i]

@TheOneWhoGives

Which doesn't necessarily delete all data...

The best way to format a drive is to write 0s to all sectors. And the best way to destroy a drive is to first write 0s to all sectors, then physically destroy the drive.

That way there is no way to recover data, at all. Because even if you partially delete data, or "degauss" it, there is still a chance for someone to take the platters (even after crushed) and possibly extract some data.

[TehMG]

Someone I know who works for a certain corporation told me this is how they erase their old hard drives:

1) run DBAN

2) use drill press to drill a hole clean through the platters

[SomeMoreVideos2468]

lol. ;)