Interesting article. They are pretty specific about destruction methods. I agree with Erik, with the current price of drives, destruction IS secure, cheap and can be done most anywhere with any of several methods. (large hammers, drills, sand blaster, small arms fire, etc) Typically I pull the drives apart and recycle the circuit boards, recycle the aluminum, keep the magnets and stack up the platters. Critical platters I hammer a bit. I have a large stack of platters and putting the right platters back to gether to try to recover the data would be very difficult and probably not worth the effort. Additionally most of the 'retired' drives are of small enough size to make them not practical to reuse anywhere and most organizations that take donated stuff have minimum standards and don't want them either. So for my clients that I 'dispose' of drives for that require security, I can guarantee that the data will not get out by the destruction method and I get to keep <grin> the magnets. Small minds are easily amused ;-P
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Erik Goldoff <egold...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not sure if you intend to reuse, donate, or sell the old hard drives, but > with current low price of drives, it would probably be easier and more > definitely secure to send the drives through a shredder. > > > Secure erase *used* to be good enough for PCI compliance if DOD standards > were used, can I ask where you got the info that degaussing is now required > ? > > > > Erik Goldoff > IT Consultant > Systems, Networks, & Security > > -- > Len Hammond > CSI:Hartland > lenhamm...@gmail.com > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
