Other than a fun factor, what is so wrong about just erasing (DOD) or
writing Zeros to the drives? THere is nothing on most of my drives
that would need anywhere near this level of attention. You guys have
a bunch of spies and covert ops going on in your buildings?
Karl H. Hehr
Technology/Curriculum Director
South Hamilton CSD
www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us
515.827.5418 (W)
515.209.9767 (C)
515.827.5368 (F)
Luddite by Degrees
1) Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and
ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2) Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and
exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3) Anything invented after you're 35 is again the natural order of
things
--- Douglas Adams
On Apr 6, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Stanzel, Matt wrote:
We always take ours to a drill press with a moderately-sized bit,
and run about 12 holes through the platters. Of course, I like the
cutting torch idea better. Now we’ll all be fighting over who gets
to destroy hard drives!
From: McKenney, Kurt [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 3:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [info-tech] Fw:
If I really want to wipe a drive, I take it down to the metal shop
and use a cutting torch to reduce it to slag. I’ve done this 3 times
in 12 years. It has the downside of not being able to use it on
anything else, however I guarantee this technique will prevent any
known data recovery technique.
Ok, a Ouija board might help. But can you imagine doing all those
0’s and 1’s?
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]
] On Behalf Of Murray Gafkjen
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 1:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [info-tech] Fw:
It’s been awhile since we had to wipe a drive. Our current device,
Sonix by Logicube, used for creating an imagine can also wipe it to
DOD standards. It runs for about $2,000 and cleans one machine at a
time..
Have a good week to all,
Murray Gafkjen
CCE
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]
] On Behalf Of McKenney, Kurt
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 12:19 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [info-tech] Fw:
Q. I am concerned with the information that may be left on the hard
drives even
though we did a complete wipe, what do you do to insure me that my
information
is safe?
A. We take this very seriously. We start by using our in house
Veridan Hard
drive de-gausser. This unit will 'fry' a hard drive in roughly 5
seconds, and
any drive up to 500mb.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but 500 Megabyte drives really aren’t an
issue for any of us…
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]
] On Behalf Of Scott Fosseen [Prairie Lakes AEA]
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 12:05 PM
To: Info-Tech
Subject: [info-tech] Fw:
From: Phoenix E-Waste Solutions LLC
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 11:32 AM
To: [email protected]
Once again this year during Earth Week, April 20th thru April 24th
Phoenix E-Waste Solutions LLC in Marshalltown Iowa will be holding
an E-Cycling Drive for Schools located throughout all of Iowa. This
E-Cycling drive is geared towards reducing and diverting toxic
wastes from area landfills.
Recycling Fee Schedule:
CRT Computer Monitors: $6.00 Each
Flat Pannel Computer Monitors: $5.00 each
Desktop Printers: $2.00 each
PC’s, Miscellanious items such as: Keyboards, mice, speakers,
cables, overhead projectors are accepted at no charge.
Collection will take place during the week of April 20th. Items
must be palletized and wrapped for trucking. Please contact Brett
or Mike with Phoenix E-Waste at 1-641-753-7200 or e-mail us at [email protected]
to schedule a pickup or for further questions.
I'm sure a few of you will have questions concerning e-waste
recycled through
us. Hopefully I can cover them all in this short E-Mail
Q. What happens to our 'stuff' once it has arrived at your facility?
A. We break everything down into roughly 8 categories-
Computers
Computer Monitors
TV's
Printers
Miscellaneous Items (VCR's, Radio's, Recording Device's,
typewriters, things
like this)
Keyboards
Mice
Flat Screen Monitors
From there, each category is once again broke down completely by
de-manufacturing everything in house. By the time we are done, we
have
roughly 16 commodities ready for shredding/smelting or re-use.
Q. I am concerned with the information that may be left on the hard
drives even
though we did a complete wipe, what do you do to insure me that my
information
is safe?
A. We take this very seriously. We start by using our in house
Veridan Hard
drive de-gausser. This unit will 'fry' a hard drive in roughly 5
seconds, and
any drive up to 500mb. This physically destroys the media disk
located inside
the drive. This deems the drive inoperable and unusable. From
there, we cage
drives up and transport to an undisclosed shredding facility right
here in
Iowa. We then recover the aluminum scrap for breakage.
Q. What happens to our CRT Glass? Do you recycle it on site, and
are you
permitted to recycle these items?
A. As I noted before, we de-manufacture everything in house. CRT
Tubes are
binned, weighed, and shipped to Doe Run, St Louis Mo for crushing
and lead
extraction. We call this Glass-to-Glass recycling.
