Question

Per your company's data destruction policy, you have been tasked with the destruction of data on a magnetic hard drive. The policy employed by your company specifies that you must destroy the drive by reducing or eliminating the magnetic fields present in the drive. What method should you use?

Answer 1

Answer: Physical destruction

Explanation: Consists of the uselessness of the support, it can be done by:

Disintegration: non-uniform cutting or crushing mechanism that reduces the device to pieces of random size and shape.

Crushing: it consists of reducing the support to tiny pieces of uniform size and shape. The use of crushers is normally limited to thin media, such as optical data carriers (DVDs or CDs).