I’d recommend wiping disks before of disposing. It is very quick and easy to use a magnetic tool before throwing it in the recycle bin. The drive may get “lost” in transit before getting to Excess and Salvage.
-Kevin From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Allison Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 3:36 PM To: Bruce Satow <[email protected]> Cc: List Micronet <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Micronet] Hard drive destroyer If you dispose of them via campus recycling, they are shredded. According to Eric Anglim: "Our contract with our electronic recycler calls for them to shred all hard drives we send, either those already pulled out of systems, or for them to pull hard drives out of CPUs or copier/printers and shred them." On Aug 20, 2015 1:44 PM, "Bruce Satow" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Is there a place on campus that has a machine that chops up hard drives into bits? -- Bruce Satow Systems Administrator University of California at Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory 7 Gauss Way Berkeley, California 94720-7450 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Phone: (510) 643-2348 <tel:%28510%29%20643-2348> Cell: (510) 847-1914 <tel:%28510%29%20847-1914> Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: http://micronet.berkeley.edu Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. ANNOUNCEMENTS: To send announcements to the Micronet list, please use the [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> list.
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