"R.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > 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. > We got rid of old cartridges by having them destroyed (burnt) by a company specialized in secure destruction. Our auditors could follow the cartridges all the way until they (the cart's -;)) were thrown into the oven. We degaused some 5000 cartridges years ago before selling them to a broker as used cartridges. Degausing erases the data, including the label, so the tapes must be reinitialized but that is all. Kees. ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
