Disk Wipe Methods

[Dustin Decker]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Dale wrote:

> Well if you want to make sure it is totally
> unreadable, wouldn't just setting it on a powerful
> magnet take care of it?.... after running wipe of
> course.

Yes.  This is analogous to degaussing the drive.  The down side is, you 
might not be able to re-use the drive.  Destruction is easy enough, but 
isn't the goal in this case.
D.

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