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Hard Drive Degaussing Services

Ensure total data elimination with our professional Degaussing services. We use high-power magnetic fields to permanently sanitize magnetic media, rendering data completely unrecoverable and ensuring compliance with data security standards.

What Is a Degaussing Device?

Degaussing is a unique process for the permanent destruction of data on hard drives. During this process, the magnetic domains of the drives are deliberately destroyed, rendering all stored information completely unreadable. Specialized degaussing devices remove the magnetic coating made of chromium or iron oxide that is used to store data. By precisely altering the magnetic field, all information is made permanently inaccessible. Depending on the Oersted (Oe) rating of the drives, the device generates a controlled magnetic field that guarantees maximum security in data destruction.

How Many Types of Degaussers Are There?

The most commonly used degaussers include:

  • Impulse degaussers

  • Permanent magnet degaussers

  • Conveyor belt degaussers

  • Alternating current (AC) degaussers

These devices use powerful electromagnetic fields to deliberately disrupt the magnetic field of hard drives, magnetic tapes, or other storage media, making the stored data permanently unreadable.

The amount of energy required for degaussing depends on the Oersted (Oe) value, or coercivity, of the storage media. The higher this value, the more powerful the degausser must be to ensure complete and secure data destruction.

Degaussing for All Types of Drives

Degaussing can be applied to both working and damaged hard drives or other magnetic storage devices that are no longer in use but still contain data. This process reliably destroys all types of magnetic storage media such as floppy disks, hard drives, or magnetic tapes.

Please note: Degaussing is effective for most magnetic-based storage media, but it is not suitable for SSDs or non-magnetic storage devices such as SD cards or USB flash drives.

Degassuring: 100% Permanent Data Removal

Modern hard drives store data on tiny particles as small as 2 mm, capable of holding up to 600,000 data pages. This is why degaussing provides a highly reliable method for permanently rendering data inaccessible—significantly more effective than physical shredding.

Incinerating magnetic drives requires extremely high temperatures of around 6,700 °C, produces toxic residues, and releases harmful substances. Overwriting data, while environmentally safe, is time-consuming and does not always guarantee complete data removal.

Methods of On-Site Data Destruction

Saves Money and Time

By purchasing a degausser for your company, you can save money in the long run. Alternatively, you can hire reliable data destruction services that offer on-site services and save you time.

Deletes All Data

Degaussing is irreversible. Once the process is complete, the data is irretrievable. The National Security Agency recommends physically destroying/shredding hard drives after degaussing.

Ensures Data Privacy

To ensure the secure removal of unused or unwanted data, degaussing is a practical method for efficiently clearing a large number of hard drives.

Reduces the Risk

During hard drive degaussing, data is destroyed without a trace using a strong magnetic pulse. Through degaussing, all data in multiple parts can be erased in a tenth of a second.

Clean Process

Degaussing is a clean process where electricity is used and no harmful byproducts are created. It works on both functional and non-functional drives.

Environmentally Friendly

Degaussing is more eco-friendly than incineration and more efficient than overwriting, since damaged drives can’t be overwritten, and degaussers have long-term usability.

Why should you rely
on our services

100% Data Security

Compliance with GDPR

Environmentally friendly

Detailed Reporting

Frequently Asked Questions

Degaussing does not cause physical damage and does not release harmful byproducts. It reduces the risk of data leaks and enables systematic recycling.

No, a degaussed hard drive cannot be reused. During degaussing, not only is all data on the hard drive deleted, but also the files required for startup. A degaussed hard drive can therefore no longer boot.

Compared to incineration and physical shredding, degaussing is a simpler process. Degaussing a drive typically takes a few seconds to one minute.

No, it is not possible to reuse the data after degaussing a hard drive, as the degausser demagnetizes the stored magnetic patterns with its strong electromagnetic field.

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