We purchased a degaussing machine and run the tapes through it, a lot fast then trying to erase w/ drives you can rent one also, we did 3490E carts when we went to 3590's so there was not a market for the carts so we crushed them afterwards in our compactor
http://www.datalinkassoc.com/products/degau.html "R.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED] LTIBANK.COM.PL> To Sent by: IBM [email protected] Mainframe cc Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU> Re: Safest way to destroy 3590 Carts(Data Erasure Products) 02/08/2008 06:21 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote: > On this note... We have about 5000 Double-(blue) and 3000 triple > density(green) Carts, due to the sensitivity of the data on them, > company policy prohibits us from transporting them to the mother ship > who is in the process to devouring us, even though they are encrypted, > so how do you destroy them, in a eco friendly way if you cannot even > sell them on. I personally think that the companies that sell them > should take them back without charge and do the destroying under > supervision of internal auditors of the companies involved. > > Any experience from you guys that have gone thru similar situations? In general, you have two choices: 1. Erase data, keep the media. If you want to keep the carts usable, you need to erase them in a drive. I believe it means half an hour per cart. - Approx. 50 cart a day, so it would take one drive for half of year! 2. Erase data and destroy the media. That means you use degausser. You can buy or lease it. 8000 carts should be degaussed within a week or faster, assuming one person working with it. After degaussing the cart are unusable. You can hire a company for degaussing the tapes on site. There are other methods of destroying the media - shredders, burning, acid, but they're more expensive or not eco-friendly. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- BRE Bank SA ul. Senatorska 18 00-950 Warszawa www.brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 0000025237 NIP: 526-021-50-88 Wedug stanu na dzie 01.01.2007 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci op acony) wynosi 118.064.140 z. W zwizku z realizacj warunkowego podwyszenia kapitau zakadowego, na podstawie uchwa XVI WZ z dnia 21.05.2003 r., kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA moe ulec podwyszeniu do kwoty 118.760.528 z. Akcje w podwyszonym kapitale zakadowym bd w caoci opacone. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
