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Degaussing

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 30, 2006 04:03 AM
Degaussing will destroy the hard drive, as internal data will be deleted. For safe wiping of data, use DBAN or the internal data-destruction feature modern harddrives have: the ATA-command SECURITY ERASE UNIT, which can be invoked by some tools.

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