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Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound harddrives??
From: "Basgen, Brian" <bbasgen () PIMA EDU>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:07:42 -0700
The primary concern we had was consistency and process assurance such that the thousands of drives we handle every year were properly "destroyed". The basic premise we had going with a hard drive crusher was the idea that there is a greater likelihood of error when running a software based process than a hardware one. For example, given the problem of having to wipe 60 computers in a week, a technician will remove and crush the drives, and at the end do a simple audit of spindles to ensure we have 60. While a similar process is possible with other methods, I think the audit process would be more difficult and error prone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Basgen Information Security Office Pima Community College Office: 520-206-4873 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Valdis Kletnieks Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:36 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound harddrives?? On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:18:08 -0000, Michael Schalip said:Still sounds much more cost effective to apply the Sledg-O-Matic (or Drill-O-Matic) and move on.... Unless you're planning to sell the boxes at surplus auction, where a system with a known-working disk drive (because DBAN just ran across every block) is worth a lot more than a system that's got a hole where the disk drive used to be. And turning on the box and booting DBAN is usually faster than all the work needed to crack the case, pull the drive, and find the implements of destruction. Remember, you can just walk away while it's running and check back later.
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- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Valdis Kletnieks (Sep 28)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound harddrives?? Basgen, Brian (Sep 28)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? David Auclair (Sep 28)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Himes, Daniel Jay (Sep 28)
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- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Doty, Timothy T. (Sep 29)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Doty, Timothy T. (Sep 29)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? SCHALIP, MICHAEL (Sep 29)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Valdis Kletnieks (Sep 29)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? John Ladwig (Sep 29)
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