secure data erasing

Tue Dec 6 21:40:58 PST 2005

hi ya baylisa-erz

- to beat a dead horse ( secure data erasure ) some more ...

- i'm looking to see if anybody here has a degausser floating around

	- we'll pay you for the rental time on those $3K or more puppies

- erasing disks with freeware/proprietory commercial software is 
  NOT an option

- sledge hammer will be an option on a couple of the disks
  but not the other disks .. ( it'd be a "waste of disk" )

- trick question ..
	- how good are the degaussers .. can the magnetic waves get
	thru the metal (typically aluminum ) that forms the disk 
 	to randomly screw up the "itty-bitty magnets" on the platters

	if the case is steel .. it'd be a real good trick to erase
	the platters ..

c ya
alvin

x> http://www.ibas.com/data-erasure/degausser
x> http://www.degausser.info/
x> http://www.datadev.com/
x> http://www.periphman.com/gsa.shtml
x>
x> $ 3100
x> http://www.athana.com/ddequip/v91mHD.htm
x> http://www.degausser.us/degaussers/91mhd.htm ( same as above )
x> http://www.garsonindustries.com/degauss/91mhd.htm ( same as above)
x> http://asiastor.com/verity_v91mhd.htm ( same as above )
x>
x> $ 860 - sorta worthless since the disk is opened already
x> http://www.datalinksales.com/cgi-bin/shop/datstore.cgi?user_action=detail&catalogno=V85