Done properly, volume and/or object encryption eliminates the need to degauss drives before de-commissioning them. Encryption also protects against theft of the drives. Degaussing would only be effective against drive theft if the thieves were obliging enough to provide advance notice so you could degauss the specific drives just before they were stolen. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20130308/6973951c/attachment.html>