[BBLISA] DDS Tape Erasure/Destruction Services?

[David Allan]

Hey everybody,

Back to this thread...does anyone have any experience with Greendisk
(www.greendisk.com)?  I like the sound of them from their
website--environmentally conscious, audited data destruction, not
cost-prohibitive.

Dave


On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Theo Van Dinter wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:08:50PM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> > I have dozens of DDS and DDS2 tapes which I used to use for backups of my
> > old personal server.  I'd like to get rid of all of them, but they still
> > have data on there that I'd prefer not to let other people have access to.
> >
> > Alternately, is disassembling/smashing the tapes considered "good enough"?
> > I really don't think people are going to be going after my tapes in my
> > trash, but ...
>
> Thanks for the suggestions folks!  I ended up disassembling the tapes
> (each was held together by 4 small screws), then using shears to cut
> through the actual tape.  It doesn't guarantee that no one will be able
> to read the data, but I think it'd be way more work than it's worth for
> someone to try dealing with.
>
> --
> Theo Van Dinter, tvd at bblisa.org/felicity at kluge.net
> Systems Administrator, bblisa.org/kluge.net
>