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Media Shredders
From: "Perry, Jeff" <perry () KU EDU>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:01:37 -0500
Greetings, We are looking at buying a moderate size commercial shredder to shred floppies and CD/DVD's to handle media that we either can't or are too tedious for our commercial degaussers. I am looking for something with a reasonable duty cycle and warranty that is designed to handle quite a bit of media. I can find lots of specific info on degaussers but I'm not having much luck finding shredders that specifically are rated for floppy and polycarbonate media and can handle a few hundred pieces a day. Most product documentations says "will handle paper, credit cards, CD's, and staples". But I'm sure there is a big difference between those that will take the occasional CD and those that will take floppies and CD's all day. Any recommendations would be appreciated. For those interested in degaussers: We have an HD-3 from Gartner products that is really nice. We are now looking at buying a larger HD-8800 to expand our "you bring it we'll nuke it" data destruction service. We've seen a surprising amount of mag media that won't fit in a standard hard drive degaussers. Who knew so many old large format video tapes and full size reels were still lurking in closets! Thanks, JP -------------------------------------------- Jeff Perry, CISSP Manager, Security Services and Operations Information Security Office - A Division of Information Services The University of Kansas Office +1 785-864-9003 Direct +1 785-864-0489 Fax +1 785-864-0485 Email perry () ku edu -------------------------------------------- http://www.security.ku.edu The information transmitted by the above email is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any interception, review, retransmission, dissemination, or other use of, or taking of any action upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited by law and may subject them to criminal or civil liability. If you received this communication in error, please contact us immediately at (785) 864-9003, and delete the communication from any computer or network system.
Current thread:
- Media Shredders Perry, Jeff (Sep 10)
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- Re: Media Shredders Joel Rosenblatt (Sep 10)
- Re: Media Shredders Allison Dolan (Sep 11)
- Re: Media Shredders Perry, Jeff (Sep 11)
- Re: Media Shredders Joey Mavity (Sep 11)