We found this thread in a blog on the net and loved one of the replies.

“To erase a drive you need a high frequency AC magnetic field. Bringing a powerful magnet close to a drive will “corrupt” the data as the individual flux lines will change certain bits. The drive may be unreadable, but can be reformatted and possibly repaired. A hammer is a better erase device.”

There is some really good intel here, the magnet theory is a myth and even smashing with a hammer can leave parts of a disk readable.

You either need to wipe the drive clean using high tech and expensive equipment or you need to shred the drives, then you need to receive a report that gives you a full audit trail as to what has happened to your old drives.

Anything else just will not do!

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