You might want to degauss even before sending out to such a company.

At least one poster on this list noted how he had gotten "used" tapes
that were supposedly wiped but on checking he found other people's data.

As for us we degauss any bad tapes after images have expired in NBU.  We
don't destroy until then on the off chance we'll need to send to someone
like Pivar to try to extract what can be extracted.

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of James
Osbourn
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:55 AM
To: Justin Piszcz
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions.

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.
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