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A technician wants to securely dispose of storage drives. Which or the following is the best way to eliminate data on SSDs?
The correct answer is A. Degaussing. Degaussing is presented as a method for securely eliminating data from storage drives by using strong magnetic fields to disrupt data patterns.
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A technician wants to securely dispose of storage drives. Which or the following is the best way to eliminate data on SSDs?
Options
- ADegaussing
- BShredding
- CErasing
- DDrilling
How the community answered
(19 responses)- A89% (17)
- C5% (1)
- D5% (1)
Why each option
Degaussing is presented as a method for securely eliminating data from storage drives by using strong magnetic fields to disrupt data patterns.
Degaussing utilizes powerful magnetic fields to scramble and disrupt the magnetic patterns on storage media, thereby destroying any residual data and preventing its recovery, which is a common technique for data sanitization.
Shredding, while effective for physical destruction, is a mechanical process rather than an electromagnetic data elimination technique.
Simple erasing often only marks data as deleted without fully overwriting it, making it potentially recoverable unless a secure erase utility is used.
Drilling is a physical destruction method that damages the drive's platters or chips, rather than electronically sanitizing the data.
Concept tested: Secure data disposal methods
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