the ISSUE is not difficulty in doing it....it is COST for the **** machine LOL. I looked and even the hand WANDS are $1K+ and a machine like that runs a few thousand $$$. Now the other things is...say you use the wand...when you take it out of the protective cover DON'T get it near ANYTHING that has a memory....ie you car key fob you cell phone, laptop or anything else....otherwise POOF dead. Now using a machine like the above, it has a lead shield or similar that keeps the magnetic field inside it.
The "HEPA" someone mentioned is actually HIPPA. You do NOT have to degauss the drive. All you have to do is run a professional program that reformats the drive to DoD standards (3 passes)....but most allow a better standard NSA (7 passes). this has been discussed in another thread BTW, so you can read through it. This program also give a Certificate of Destruction...it has all the info for the drive (serial number ect). It is sent to the company or place the drive was taken from for their records (via email or printed). you can actually do this service and charge anywhere from $10-25 a pop very easily. IF YOU WANT TO DO THIS FOR places that have HIPPA requirements, you better have the pro software, issue certs of destruction AND purchase E&O insurance that specifically covers you for data breach (not all that expensive...$400-500/yr typically).
And yes ANY resold drive should be ran through similar software like that....and yes I DO IT with my resold drives. I am about to start offering the service for people with old hard drives as well....another revenue source.....just getting the servers I picked up for free up and running in a week or 2 (LOL). I can put about 10 drives in each and set them running...especially since larger drives take several hours to run a 7 pass NSA reformat. Easy since I actually got a server that has hot swappable hard drive bays...I have a SCSI one, setting up an IDE one and then going to grab a cheap SATA one. Alot more money in resold drives than scrapping them.
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