An organization is decommissioning several storage devices, including traditional Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) and Solid-State Drives (SSDs). A technician is instructed to use degaussing for media sanitization. For which type of media would this technique be ineffective?
Hard Disk Drives (HDDs)
Solid-State Drives (SSDs)
Magnetic tapes
Floppy disks
Degaussing is a media sanitization technique that uses a powerful magnetic field to neutralize the magnetic data stored on media. This process is effective for magnetic storage like Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) and magnetic tapes. However, it is ineffective for Solid-State Drives (SSDs) because SSDs store data electronically in flash memory (NAND) cells, which are not affected by magnetic fields. Appropriate sanitization techniques for SSDs include cryptographic erasure, using the ATA Secure Erase command, or physical destruction.
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