Re: Hard Drive Disposal

["Thomas R. Davis" <tdavis () IU EDU>]

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On Feb 6, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Chris Green wrote:

> Has anyone gone down the path of shredding hard drives before they
> leave
> your custody?  Anyone have industrial shredders to recommend?
>
> Our procedures currently are to degauss them but that's a hard one
> to verify
> that it worked. We're outsourcing most of our media and paper
> shredding but
> HDs are a separate fee ($20/drive) and not done onsite.

We did some research on buying a shredder outright a couple of months
ago.  We were hoping to be able to partner with our Purchasing
department, Internal Audit, and Central Stores (they sell our surplus
equipment and have to deal with quite a few unusable drives) to share
in the cost.  So far, though, the high cost has been keeping this a
low priority for us to centrally fund.

In addition to the products already mentioned, you may want to take a
look at Garner's Physical Hard Drive Destroyer model PD-8400:

 http://www.garner-products.com/PD-8400.htm

It is recommended to be used in conjunction with a degausser like one
of these:

 HDTD-8200  http://www.garner-products.com/deg-hdtd-8200.htm
 HDTD-8300  http://www.garner-products.com/deg-hdtd-8300.htm
 HDTD-8750  http://www.garner-products.com/hdtd-8750.htm
 HD-1       http://www.garner-products.com/deghd1.htm
 CDS-4000FS http://www.garner-products.com/deg4000.htm


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Office of the VP for Information Technology, Indiana University
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