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I'm sure you can find some Chinese company selling them, but there's no point: the Gutmann method is designed for hardware that hasn't been made in the past 30 years. With modern hardware, a simple zero-wipe will stop anyone short of a three-letter agency, and even waving a degaussing wand over it will stop most attackers.