Degaussing, the reason we do not recommend it.
Why take a chance on a result you can not see?

Degaussing when carried out correctly does remove all traces of data beyond recovery.
However what if the hard drive is not left on the degausser for long enough or the degausser is faulty? There is no way to tell the data has been destroyed unless each and every hard drive is then tested and data recovery software is then run.
Hard drive destruction totally removes any doubt concerning your data security.

What's The Worst That Can Happen?
Your company information can be made public knowledge or sold to your competitors, your customers data can be leaked in the same way.
The publicity from this can be devastating to your company and in today's security conscious climate data leakage is not something that is forgotten quickly

What really happens to your data?
So..you have a certificate of destruction issued by your 'recycler'. What exactly does this mean?

While some recyclers are true to there word and carry out the data destruction work there are just as many who do not!

As the BBC revealed in August 2006 computer hard drives supposedly sanitised by one of the U.K.'s largest recyclers surfaced in Nigeria being sold for around £20 having only been given a low level format and making it simple work for the scammers to recover personal and business data from the hard drives.

This situation can be prevented by having your data destroyed and visually inspecting the job has been carried out correctly before releasing the media it was contained on.