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 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 9:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Disk degauss services? Greetings! I've been informed that, for PCI-compliance, old hard drives (from decomissioned servers, etc) need to be degaussed rather than over-written by something like DBAN. Does anyone have experience with a company which offers this service and which they would recommend? I can Google and get several, but I am looking for personal experiences any of you may have had. FWIW, we're in Illinois, about 120 miles south of Chicago. Thanks! -------------------------------------- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
