Hard drives can seldom be used after degaussing because it destroys the drive's timing tracks, servo motors, and usually demagnetizes the permanent magnets of the spindle motor on sealed drives
Degaussing (demagnetizing) Physical Destruction Overwriting
No, if you use it again.. YOUR GAY
Hard disk Drive: 18GB
Offline and then Prepare to remove
Initialize and remove dead segments
Yes, it is allowed to bring an external hard drive on a plane in your carry-on luggage. It is recommended to keep it easily accessible for security screening.
Yes, you can bring a hard drive on a plane in your carry-on luggage. It is recommended to keep electronic devices and accessories in your carry-on bag for security screening.
Backup software is not recommended since if your hard drive fails, your backup fails. It is best to get an external hard drive or to back up your computer in the cloud.
Formatting a hard drive is basically making it brand new. When it is formatted, all of the data is cleared. Compare it to your phone. When you got it, you had no pictures, music, or other data on it. After a while, like a hard drive, your phone gains new data and it's not in the same state as it originally was brand new. When it's formatted, it's reset back to default as a hard drive would be and cleared out so that you can reuse it. Formatting is good once in a while.
A 2 GB hard drive with 650 MB of free space is the recommended minimum. Of course, that's probably not enough for more than very basic tasks, so a larger one is probably required, depending on your needs.
Hard drives should be destroyed when they are defective or cannot be economically repaired or sanitized for reuse. Functioning operable hard drives no longer deemed economically viable should be overwritten or degaussed prior to destruction.
For an internal drive, you will first need to confirm what physical size drive your desktop can hold. In some cases, like the Mac Mini, laptop-size drives are used. A 7200 rpm drive is recommended for it's speed, along with the most GBs that fit in your budget.