How do you dispose of old magnetic media such as disk drives and tapes? Crushing the media with a sledge hammer may seem a good approach but that and other similarly crude methods may not guarantee complete erasure. Interestingly, that seems to be the approach that former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee chose before handing the keys to his successor. He didn't erase software. He didn't shred documents. He smashe How do you dispose of old magnetic media such as disk drives and tapes? Crushing the media with a sledge hammer may seem a good approach but that and other similarly crude methods may not guarantee complete erasure.Interestingly, that seems to be the approach that former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee chose before handing the keys to his successor. He didn’t erase software. He didn’t shred documents. He smashed the hard drives.that article reports. Crushing the disk drives of servers and personal computers apparently worked for Mr. Huckabee, but if you have to dispose of old media routinely and safely using a degausser is probably a better choice.In coincidence with the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Fujitsu Computer Products of America is announcing today the Mag EraSURE P3M, a new model of degausser that works without electricity and can erase any kind of magnetic media up to 1″ deep, including the latest disk drives with perpendicular recording, in 20 seconds or less. According to Fujitsu, with its internal permanent magnets the ME-P3M can generate a magnetic fields of up to 1.4 Tesla . The M3-P3M is available immediately at a list price just below $47K. Technology Industry