Free CompTIA A+ 220-1102 Practice Question

Your company has recently decommissioned a large number of hard drives and intends to give the devices to a recycling company. Before doing so, the company wants to ensure that all sensitive data on the drives is irretrievably destroyed to comply with data protection regulations. What is the most appropriate method for securing the data before giving the disks to a 3rd party?

  • Degaussing the hard drives to disrupt the stored data

  • Physically destroying the hard drives by drilling

  • Conducting a standard formatting of the hard drives

  • Performing a low-level formatting to prepare the hard drives for new data

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