Re: erasing hard drives

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From: Al Stangenberger (forags_at_nature.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 18 2003 - 15:34:26 PDT

It seems to me that this is a tool which Excess and Salvage (or CCS?) could
purchase and offer
its use (as a service for a nominal fee) to the campus.

If they charged, for example, $5 per drive, it would almost be competitive
compared to
staff wages required to run a software tool on a machine. (and then there
are all of the
drives which are in non-functioning computers - how much time does it take
to install
one in a working computer in order to wipe it with software?)

-Al Stangenberger

At 02:48 PM 9/18/03 -0700, Bob Callaway wrote:
>What make and model of degausser did you buy, Mark?
>
>
>>We bought a magnetic degausser unit for tapes and hard drives, it wipes
>>the data cleaner than any software tool could.
>>
>>- Mark
>>
>>At 01:35 PM Thursday 9/18/2003, you wrote:
>>>we have 30+ machines whose hard drives need to be erased before sending
>>>them to Excess & Salvage. What tools are people using to do this?
>>>Thanks!
>>>Tony
>>>
>>>Tony Christopher
>>>Technology Outreach Manager
>>>Undergraduate Affairs
>>>University of California, Berkeley
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