RE: Cleansing or decommission of system

Tannerite is more fun.

Paul Nelson
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DrFranken
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 2:59 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Cleansing or decommission of system

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

www.frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com
www.iInTheCloud.com

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
lketzes@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:lketzes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
302-594-2146
http://www.linkedin.com/in/larryketzes/


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