degausser

[Trent Shipley]

It takes a bit of work break them open.

Will a hole punch take care of the old 5 1/2s?  




________________________________
From: Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net>
To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Sent: Mon, February 15, 2010 6:21:59 PM
Subject: Re: degausser

Yeah, but if they're going to be used again for anything (there are 
still people using them believe it or not), they'll need to be formatted 
after degaussing them. Preferrable a full format to weed out bad disks.

Otherwise, I suppose you could just bust 'em apart and recycle the 
outside plastic parts.

Trent Shipley wrote:
> But time consuming.  I like the powerful permanent magnet idea.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net>
> *To:* plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> *Sent:* Mon, February 15, 2010 5:59:31 PM
> *Subject:* Re: degausser
> 
> Craig White wrote:
>  > On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 17:47 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote:
>  >> My Mom wants to decommission all her old floppies.
>  >>
>  >> Is the tool you would use to do that called a "degausser"?  Fry's said
>  >> they didn't have a thingy to scramble the magnetic domains on floppies
>  >> or tapes.
>  > ----
>  > a wipe with a very powerful magnet should be all that is needed for the
>  > task
>  >
>  > Craig
> 
> Or you could run the shred program against them.
> 
> How sensitive is the data on them though, really? Doing a full format on
> them might be sufficient.
> 
> -- 
> -Eric 'shubes'
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us 
> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> To subscribe, u nsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
> 


-- 
-Eric 'shubes'

---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss



      
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/pipermail/plug-discuss/attachments/20100215/10c80777/attachment.htm