Wednesday, I was able to check off another one of those things on the 'To Do at least Once in your IT Career' list by degaussing hard drives. Degaussing a hard drive means using a device that generates a strong electromagnetic field to wipe the data on the drive. This is an important step that I've mentioned before in the 'Before you Recycle/Garbage that Old Computer' article to ensure your security and privacy. Normally, we would use DBaN but that could take 20 to 60+ minutes per drive depending on the capacity and condition of the drive. The degaussing process takes about 20 seconds per drive (5-10 seconds per side). Since another IT office had just got the degausser, I decided to take it for a spin and wipe 250 drives in the time we would normally be able to do 8 (good) drives with DBaN.This is an excerpt of an article from 404 Tech Support. Read the full article here: Degaussing Hard Drives
