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Drive disposal



These are dead or dying office drives, or old scsi production drives.  Working office drives and other hardware we dban and find new homes for.  

------Original Message------
From: Bill Horne
Sender: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org
To: BLU
Subject: Re: Drive disposal
Sent: Mar 22, 2010 1:07 PM

On 3/22/2010 12:27 PM, jay-R5TnC2l8y5lBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
> I've started looking into some low volume drive disposal, and was curious what options others use.  My main requirments are:
>
> 1. Reasonable for low volume, 25- 50 drives every 6 months I would guess.
>
> 2. Provide cerification that will pass hipaa requirments.  Basically chain of custody, degausing and shreding.  We deal with a lot of pharma companies, and would like to use similar standards.
>
> 3. Resonably local, and allow drop off or local pick up options.
>
> My searching online has turned up SEM out of westboro, that meets all these.  And their site quotes a rate of $5 a drive for lots of 26-100. 
>
> Anyone have any advice on companies and costs?
>
>
>   

If you're talking about drives that are still usable, you might do
better with organizations or individuals (I'm one) who recycle machines
for low-income users. If HIPAA allows for the "secure erasure" of
drives, then you could save at least some of the recycling cost by
donating drives to these places.

Bill


-- 
E. William Horne
William Warren Consulting
Computer & Network Installations, Security, and Service
http://william-warren.com
781-784-7287


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