A company is decommissioning a data center and needs to sanitize various types of storage media for disposal. A technician is instructed to use a degausser for this process. On which of the following media types will this data destruction method be effective?
Solid-state drive (SSD)
USB flash drive
Magnetic tape
Compact Disc (CD)
The correct answer is magnetic tape. Degaussing uses a powerful magnetic field to destroy data stored on magnetic media. This makes it effective for devices like traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) and magnetic tapes. However, it is not effective on media that does not use magnetic storage, such as solid-state drives (SSDs) which use flash memory, optical media like CDs, or USB flash drives.
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