 PD-4 Hard Drive Physical Destroyer |
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The PD-4 physically destroys hard drives by bending, breaking and mangling the hard drive and its internal components including the data platters. The data platters are bent and separated from the hub, the hard drive housing is cracked, the PC board is broken and the read/write heads are mangled. [
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| PD-8700 Hard Drive Degausser and Destroyer |
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The PD-8700 is designed to provide a safe, convenient and effective method of destroying confidential information contained on hard drives. The PD-8700 degausses and then physically destroys the hard drive ensuring that the information previously contained on the hard drive is permanently erased and destroyed. The PD-8700 meets compliance standards for government mandates requiring complete elimination of private and confidential information stored on hard drives prior to disposal. [ More >>] |
| MHDD Manual Hard Drive Destroyer |
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The model MHDD, Manual
Hard Drive Destroyer, is designed for the destruction of all standard hard
drives. It is specifically designed
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| Sledgehammer Hard Drive Crusher |
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This hard drive "crusher" destroys all hard drives regardless of their size, format or type (from .65 to 1.65 inch) including laptop drives. At the touch of a button the model 0101 Sledgehammer HD Hard Drive Crusher delivers a staggering 12,000 pounds of force to a conical punch causing catastrophic trauma to the hard drive chassis while destroying the internal platter.[ More >>] |
Hard Drive Degaussers / Hard Drive Destroyers
With new regulations
in effect like HIPAA and GLB-Act, keeping company, employee and customer
information private is mandatory. Our degaussers will help you meet
these new physical safeguard regulations by completely demagnetizing all
data from hard drives and tapes.
It important
to note that not all degaussers will erase hard drives. The field
strength and the orientation of the degaussing field need to be able to
penetrate the aluminum housing of the hard drive and be strong enough
to reverse the polarity of the high coercivity magnetic particles on the
disk platters.
Although the
degausser models listed below have been designed to erase hard drives,
their strong degaussing fields will also erase today's high-coercivity
tape such as DLT, SDLT, 3480's, AIT and more. (except for the P1100 Degaussing Wand)
Degaussing gives
you in-house control of all sensitive and private information.
Computers have been designed to be resilient. They allow information
to be recovered if accidentally deleted or even if the hard drive has
been reformatted. Even after deleting or reformatting the hard drive,
magnetic patterns of existing data still exists on the disk platters.
Degaussing demagnetizes the entire hard drive including the disk platters
- leaving no magnetic patterns on the hard drive.
Once degaussed,
the hard drive will be unusable and will not be recognized by the computer.
In fact, the erasure is so deep that the factory written servo tracks
on the disk platters are also demagnetized leaving no reference points
for the read heads to key in on.
Note: Non-working
hard drives contain all of the original data and can be easily recovered.
Degaussing provides the quickest (under 30 seconds) and most complete
erasure of all hard drives.
Frequently
Asked Questions
When should
I degauss my media?
Media
should be degaussed before media re-use and media disposal. With
all of the un-erase utilities available, you shouldn't risk your data
getting into the wrong hands. Therefore, it should be part of your
computer policy to degauss all hard drives before returning the hard drives
for warranty repair, before donating to charity, before transferring your
computer to another department or before disposal of the computer.
What about hard drives that don't work?
Hard drives that are non-operational still retain information on the disc
platter. Degaussing magnetically erases all of the information contained
on the disc platters, thereby making the hard drive safe for disposal.
Remember, hard drives do not have to be hooked up to be degaussed.
Are Hard Drives
re-usable after degaussing?
No, hard drives are not reusable after degaussing because Data-link's hard
drive degaussers erase all data, formatting and control track (servo track)
information. This information is contained on hard drives in magnetic
patterns. Hard drive degaussers remove all magnetic patterns
eliminating the possibility of recovery and ready the hard drive for disposal.
We carry degaussers from Garner, Audiolab, Proton, Verity, Geneva |
