Re: What should be done with old RAID 5 sets?

[Matthew Keller <kellermg () POTSDAM EDU>]

40 seconds next to a tape reel degausser c1970's does the trick, as long
as you never want to use the disks again. Ever.

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 12:20, Clyde Hoadley wrote:
> We run a disk shredder program against
> ordinary disk drives before we reuse them
> or dispose of them.
>
> We have some old RAID 5 sets from a Tru64
> system that we need to send to State Surplus.
> What should we do about the those drives first?
>
> I suggested pulling two drives out of each set
> and holding those back for a month and sending
> the rest in.
>
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> Metropolitan State College of Denver
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