You place the hard drive(s) in the chute....
The manufacturer claims the degaussing process (1) degausses (erases) the platters, (2) destroys the read/write heads, and (3) destroys the ICs on the controller card. That ought to toast any SSD. (Emphasis added)
Have you confused your terms? (SSDs with platters and read/write heads?)
Nope! Solid State Drives do not survive degaussing machines. It turns the flash chips into crispy critters, same as it does with the head amp, controller, and stepper driver ICs on Spinning Disk Drives. But in that case, the chip damage is the most important result.
I'll take you on your word that degaussing will "toast" an SSD, but if you reread your quote that I quoted you'll see that you described a process beginning with "place the
hard drive(s) in the chute" and continuing on to "the degaussing process (1) degausses (erases) the
platters, (2) destroys the
read/write heads", and you then extrapolated what is clearly an HDD unfolding of events to SSDs.
