On 12-12-17 21:45, Jimmy Hess wrote:
Yeah... degaussing rings consume a lot of energy you shouldn't need to consume.
Now now, you clearly have not watched enough scient fiction/action movies... Clearly, you have a mechanism which triggers the degaussing (or neutron bomb in the basement the minute a hard drive is disconnected from the server/disk array :-) And you just need to put up a sign "warning, this building is protected with a giant degaussing magnet to protect against data theft, remove all rings from your body parts if you intend to steal from this building :-) Note that they used this trick in "Breaking Bad" with a giant magnet in a van parked right next to where evidence room and they managed to zap the laptop that contained evidence against them. Of course, the laws of physics don't apply in Hollywood so it is not clear whether this is realistic or not.