Re: What should be done with old RAID 5 sets?

[Clyde Hoadley <hoadleyc () MSCD EDU>]

For a small fee, our off site storage service
will destroy them and send us a letter of certification.
They also do tapes and diskettes.

We'll pull all of the drives out and ship them
off to be destroyed by 'trained professionals' <grin>.

Thanks all,
--Clyde

Clyde Hoadley wrote:

> We run a disk shredder program against
> ordinary disk drives before we reuse them
> or dispose of them.
>
> We have some old RAID 5 sets from a Tru64
> system that we need to send to State Surplus.
> What should we do about the those drives first?
>
> I suggested pulling two drives out of each set
> and holding those back for a month and sending
> the rest in.

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