Tri-Magnetics Corp. offers several data storage solution programs to assist in reducing your storage costs while maintaining the security and integrity of your data. These programs include Data Tape Buyback and Trade In, Certification for Redeployment, Data Tape Destruction, Barcode Label and Initialization, and Hard Drive Destruction.
Each Data Storage Solution Program adheres to the required procedures to comply with the following regulatory requirements.
Data Tape Buyback and Trade in Program
Question: When to submit your tapes for data tape buyback and
trade in?
Answer 1: When data on a tape has expired, been deleted or
moved through reclamation; consolidation of unexpired data from
multiple onto fewer volumes.
Answer 2: When a system is decommissioned and optimal value
can be reclaimed against replacement tape or credit.
Solution: Submit used or surplus tapes to TRi data tape
buyback and trade in program for cash back check or credit to a
new tape purchase.
Sample Data Tape Eradication Certificate (form Download)
Certification for Redeployment Program
It is critical to ensure that your tape is reliable to
protect the integrity of your data by certifying that you can
still write and retrieve data with zero a data mismatch. Tape
failures are most likely to occur when it is being used on your
system, which results in increased costs and increased risk. In
order to reduce tape failures when redeploying, tapes should be
cleaned and certified accordingly. Not only will you increase
your return on investment on an asset that still has value, but
you will also be guaranteed that loss of data is not at risk.
Question: When to submit your data tapes to be certified?
Answer: When redeploying your used media to other departments
or divisions in an organization for reuse.
Solution: Submit
your used tapes to TRi's certification program to undergoe the
following processes:
Five Phase Certification Compliance Program
- Each tape is audited once received according to volser
number to ensure traceability.
- Each tape is physically inspected for mechanical
defects.
- If a tape is found to have a mechanical defect, it
is audited according to volser number to report to the
customer. Once given approval from the customer, the
tape is de-labeled and submitted to our destruction
process for disposal.
- Each tape is completely eradicated to erase the previous
data, which will ensure an accurate write/read evaluation of
the test pattern that is applied.
- If a tape is found to have one data mismatch, the
tape is deemed unreliable and audited according to
volser number to report to the customer. Once given
approval from the customer, the tape is de-labeled and
submitted to our destruction process for disposal.
- Each tape that passes our stringent proprietary testing
process undergoes the following process
- completely erased to have a blank read for
reformatting
- de-labeled and cleaned
- Initialization and labeling service available
- securely packaged for safe return to customer for
redeployment.
Data Tape Destruction Program
Question: When should you retire and dispose your tapes?
Answer: The rule of thumb is when a tape encounters a write
error, performance should be monitored closely. If a write error
reoccurs, the current data on the tape should be migrated and
the faulty media scratched and submitted for evaluation or
disposal.
Solution: Submit your tapes to TRi's data tape certification
program or destruction program.
All data tape received at
our facility for disposal are audited according to volser number
and kept in a locked, enclosed storage area to ensure the
security of materials received. Once the audit is completed and
customer authorization is given, all data tape is inspected
(Phase II), de-labeled and purged through degaussing (Phase III)
to ensure that all information is unrecoverable.
Once the media has been degaussed, it is mechanically
chopped/crushed/shredded and properly destroyed to comply with
environmental regulations.
A Data Tape Sanitization Certificate and a Destruction
Certificate are issued to assure the customer that all data tape
received was securely sanitized and destroyed.
Sample Data Tape Sanitation Certificate (form download)
Sample Data Tape Destruction Certificate (form download)
Hard Drive Degaussing and Destruction Program
Degaussing of hard drives permanently erases all
data, formatting and the factory installed magnetic
servo tracks located on the hard disc
platters. Therefore, the hard drive will be unusable
after degaussing.
Tri-Magnetics hard drive degausser and physical hard
drive destroyer degausses at a 10,000 gauss force then
pierces holes into the data platters rendering the hard
drive physically unusable.
Before Destruction |
After Destruction |
|
|
Sample Hard Drive Destruction Certificate