I the past when I have had to get rid of a bunch of old media. I did some net searching and found a company that specifically dealt with this as well as equipment recycling.
They agreed a price for the amount of tapes that I had; collected them and then they were confidentially destroyed. I believe they were put in a furnace. We were then issued with a certificate of destruction as proof. This avoided any messing around with degaussing, erasing etc. James Justin Piszcz wrote: > Had a few questions. > > 1. How do you handle it? > 2. You can send tapes off-site to Iron Mountain, degauss them before you > send them off-site, that is one option. > 3. How much are the machines that "securely" and physically destroy the > tape media? > 4. If they're physically destroyed, how do you deal with the tape shards, > how do you dispose of the material? > > How do others on this list deal with bad tapes (with thousands of errors > etc) how do you properly dispose of them? > > Justin. > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Systems Administrator Backups & Storage Team Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge. CB10 1SA -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
