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One sharp rap in the center of the drive with a 2lb hammer. Now shake. Sounds kinda tingly like a baby rattle. Data all gone. :-)

Seriously we have done this for a number of companies who want us to recycle their machines but won't let us re-use the disks drives. When they hear the nice rattling they are OK with us recycling the rest of the drive. :-)

Pretty much all of the 3 1/2 inch drives in the last 10 years that have been used for IBM i etc shatter like this.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 11/19/2013 2:58 PM, Ketzes, Larry wrote:

Hello all,
Is anyone aware of a specific IBM blessed procedure to ensure all data is scrubbed from a system selected for decommission? I've heard someone tell me the disk units must be initialized 7 times to truly comply with an audit.

Any thoughts?

Thanks, Larry

Larry Ketzes
Lead Enterprise Infrastructure Engineer
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