Drive disposal

[Chandler, Scott]

Hi Jason,

We're looking at Cintas. We already use them for the secure disposal of other PHI so we'll probably use them for disk disposal even though their prices are higher.

$15.00 per Hard Drive (no upper or lower quantity stated in the quote)
$100.00 per 64 gallon container of Media (backup tapes etc.)

We also looked at Iron Mountain but they were more expensive.

Scott


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From: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org [mailto:discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of jay-R5TnC2l8y5lBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 12:28 PM
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Subject: Drive disposal

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?

Thanks
Jason
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