What is the benefit of degaussing?

The main reason why it is best to demagnetise your tapes and discs? Ultimate security. Demagnetisation offers the best protection for companies and agencies against theft of their data. Properly performed demagnetisation removes all data for good. Audio, video and data signals will never be retrievable again.
Moreover, you do not have to physically destroy the media (hard disks, floppy disks, tapes...). You can reuse some types or recycle them in an environmentally friendly way.
Is your company in need of new servers, laptops, desktops or back-up tapes? Then don't forget to demagnetise the old equipment. This is the only way to ensure that registered data never falls into the wrong hands.

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