I have tried an old TV degausser that worked like a charm. The guy that loaned it to me did warm me to keep anything that could be killed by a powerful magnetic way way away from it. While I was killing a few drives I did kill a watch and a cell phone when someone walked into the area I had set up to kill the drives. This was maybe 7 years ago the degausser was maybe 10 or 15 years old at that point.
Jon On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:16 PM, S Powell <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have usb to die/sata adaptors that we normally use, but I cannot > > find any usb to scsi adaptors. > > I presume this is SPI (SCSI Parallel Interface). I doubt you'll > find any current products that adapt USB/SPI. It was kind of a niche > market even when it was current. Also, all the ones I knew about were > slooooow. > > If you really want to do software overwrite on those drives, I'd > look for a PC with a PCI/SPI adapter, and use that. If you don't have > a PCI/SPI adapter lying around, eBay has lots for cheap. (eBay might > have USB/SPI too, but if you're buying something, I'd suggest avoiding > the USB stuff.) > > Myself, I'd just do physical destruction. Remove the covers, remove > the platters from the spindle, and then go at the platters with a > metal grinder. You can also by degaussing wands if you want something > slightly less messy, but the ones that work are expensive ($1000+). > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
