Very few items have such high liability for owners as tape and hard disk storage media. Whether it is company secrets, personal information, medical information, credit card transactions, or financial data, information is a hot commodity and the vast majority of it by far is stored on some type of magnetic media. One hard drive could contain more than $10 million in fines for a variety of privacy and ethics laws! Information that is critical to the operation of our infrastructures such as power, traffic, and phone could be compromised by simple theft of an inoperable hard drive. Stolen personal information for sale is already a mega-billion dollar industry.