Hehe, go on ebay and pick up some 5.25" full-height Seagate "Wren" drives if you want 4 ridiculously strong half-inch thick neodymium magnets, shouldnt cost more then 10 or 20 bucks each by now - legendary for thsir huge magnets. Three such drives that I've yanked magnets out of, just for the fun factor of super-strong magnets, in particular, the ST41650N Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107
_____ From: Len Hammond [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 11:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Disk degauss services? 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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. _____ If this email is spam, report it here: http://www.OnlyMyEmail.com/ReportSpam <http://www.onlymyemail.com/view/?action=reportSpam&Id=ODEzNjQ6ODIwNjc0NzQ2O nBqcEBwc25ldC5jb20%3D> THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
