Secure data destruction for a data cartridge

[Ditto]

My charity has stumbled across an old Data Cartridge - yes, just the one! It's an HP02 Ultrium Data Cartridge 400B. Our preferred e-waste company claim they can't shred. Our MSP has reached out to third party and have come back with a quote of £300, of which half is for collection! Anyone else had to deal with this challenge and achieved a less eye-watering price. We will need a data destruction cert.

 

Related - anyone used iwaste.co.uk

[JRA]

 

On a marginally more serious note, can you do it in-house? Would they accept that?

Edited October 17, 2024 by JRA

[Ditto]

 

On a marginally more serious note, can you do it in-house? Would they accept that?

Wouldn't meet our green ethics :pI've read a lot of bizarre alternatives and my favourite is when someone put the cartridge liquid nitrogen before dropping then dropped it from stories high on to a concrete floor and watched it shatter in to a million pieces. I can't verify that and would not bother with a fact check, but I liked the image!

 

But seriously, we have no internal means of disposal and for policy reasons we need a certificate of destruction from a trusted supplier. It's highly likely there is sensitive special category data on the tape, so we do need to take the appropriate action for very good reasons.

[MatthewL]

If you have a company such as Shredit, they will take them and they even shred hard drives. Sure any other similar company would do the same, we had a box full done a few years ago.

[enjay]

When I needed to destroy one of those, the Science Department provided a strong magnet.

 

When you say your e-waste company doesn't shred, you are just talking about the data cartridge not all HDD/SSDs, right?

[Andrew_C]

Can you elaborate on "data cartridge"? Are we talking tape or platters?

 

Platters - drill through them, case and all

 

Tape - band saw/cut into shreds

[PotNoodleTech]

When I needed to destroy one of those, the Science Department provided a strong magnet.

 

When you say your e-waste company doesn't shred, you are just talking about the data cartridge not all HDD/SSDs, right?

 

Sounds like they're just making excuses - find a better company - those big industrial shredders can shred literally anything - chuck a sledge hammer in there and bye bye sledge hammer.

[msi_school]

It is possible that fiscal responsibility and data destruction concerns could lead you into to a no win situation.

 

I think the concern with a tape is that it tangles up in the shredder or saw, but there must be a company who do this for LTO tapes and thus have a process, alternatively you could sit there with some scissors and cut it into short lengths then send these of to a shredding company.