Re: Media Shredders

[Joey Mavity <jmavity () APU EDU>]

I had a long post raving about Garner and then I read your post more
closely. Really the decision you have to make is which of their products
will best meet your needs. We use a lower model of their product and it
works great - I can only imagine the 8800 will be perfect for you.

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> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Perry, Jeff
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:02 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] Media Shredders
>
> 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
>
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