Since many people are still using old-fashioned hard drives, Wipexo has come up with a solution for companies that want to degauss their hard drives. For $75 per machine, they offer the service of wiping the data off the hard drive. The company currently serves most of India and is looking to expand nationwide.
Hard drives that are used with old computers or laptops can be wiped before they are disposed of for security reasons. Wipexo is the most affordable way to degauss a hard drive. They use an electromagnetic degausser which uses electrical currents to erase any data on it’s surface. Costing $45 per hour, this service leaves your device completely erased and is 100% permanent.
When a company needs to erase sensitive data from a hard drive, they might choose to degauss it. Degaussing destroys the data by exposing the disk’s magnetic surface to powerful magnetic fields, which grind away at the data, rendering it unreadable. Unfortunately, degaussers are expensive and can easily cost more than $10k! This is where Wipexo comes in.
