Hard Drive Degaussers

With new regulations in effect like HIPAA and GLB-Act, and standards such as ISO 27000 series, 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 is 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.

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.