OT: Looking for degausser/magnetic tape eraser

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Tue Sep 29 15:14:56 EDT 2009


On 09/28/2009 03:38 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> to degauss a hard drive, you first have to
> unscrew and remove the metal plate on top of the hard drive and
> expose the drive platters.

I read that as data density is increasing drives are becoming resistant
to degaussing.  I'm not sure I really understand what 'perpendicular
recording' is, but the higher magnetic resistance of the technology
seems to be important.

-Bill
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