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| Why pay to destroy your cartridges? |
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Going green is smart and profitable.
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Destroying cartridges is expensive
Most decommissioned cartridges are destroyed. Destroying cartridges is expensive and hostile to the environment. Our technology offers an alternative that is environmentally friendly and also saves you money.
Decommissioned cartridges could often be redeployed within the same enterprise. Instead of purchasing new cartridges, a data center within an organization could use decommissioned cartridges from another data center.
In other instances the decommissioned cartridges can be sold to the large and vibrant used LTO cartridge market.
Whether redeploying cartridges within an organization or selling cartridges, the most important issue for the owner of the media is the erasing of the data before a cartridge is moved off site. For the intended recipient of the used cartridges the issue is knowing the quality of the cartridges.
Erasing the data
Before media is moved even within an enterprise, the data have to be completely erased. Our equipment is capable of erasing the data at a level that is unrepresented. The erase procedure is secure and fast.
Knowing the cartridge quality
Even when the cartridge comes from a data center of the same enterprise, its condition may not be known. It could have been used past its life time, or it could have been used in a mis-adjusted tape drive. Our equipment analyzes the complete history of the cartridge and gives the recipient a comprehensive report. See Quality Report for details.
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| Specification |
| Length | 9.25" | 235 mm |
| Height | 5" | 127 mm |
| Depth | 12.75" | 324 mm |
| Weight | 15 lbs | 6.8 Kg |
Erase time
Secure Erase | 3:30 min |
Erase time
Quick Erase | ~30 sec |
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"Finally, we can now fully erase all data tapes for security sensitive users. Organizations that will not allow live data tapes to leave their location before all data are completely erased can now have total security and options beyond paying for messy grinding or incineration. This ability opens up new opportunities for recylcing and buy back of used tape cartridges."
Clay Teramo President, Data Media Source
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Secure EraseTM for extremely security sensitive sites
Owners of tape cartridges must have complete confidence that the data have been erased before the cartridges are discarded.
Whether the cartridge is redeployed within the same organization or sold outside the organization, protecting the data confidentiality is paramount.
Secure Erase is the best available technology to remove the data.
Secure EraseTM is more secure than overwrite
When data are overwritten by the same type of equipment that originally wrote the data, some of the original data remain on tape. With sophisticated methods, these data can be recovered.
The erase component in the Secure Erase equipment generates magnetic fields that are many times more powerful than the write components in a tape drive.
This strong magnetic field penetrates the entire magnetic layer of the tape and removes the data entirely.
Secure EraseTM is much faster than overwrite
Secure Erase takes less than 4 minutes per cartridge. It can take several hours to overwrite a cartridge, making this process very expensive.
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Quick EraseTM, the economical alternative
Quick Erase is the fastest and most economical way to erase a cartridge. It takes less than 1 minute per cartridge.
LTO drives use an "End of Data Mark" (EOD) mark to indicate the end of the recording. After the last data record (blue in the picture below), an EOD (red) mark is written. Data beyond this mark, such as data from a previous write operation, are inaccessable to all LTO drives.
Quick Erase writes an EOD mark at the beginning of the tape.
Before Quick Erase. Data records (blue) are followed by EOD mark (red).
After Quick Erase. A EOD mark was added to the beginning of the tape.
All LTO drives discontinue reading as soon as the EOD mark is found. An EOD mark at the beginning of tape indicates empty tape.
Quick EraseTM prevents access to remaining data records
Accessing the remaining data beyond the EOD mark requires sophisticated knowledge and expensive equipment. Quick Erase prevents not only accidental access to the remaining data,
but also prevents all but the most sophisticated deliberate attempts to read the remaining data.
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Leasing the Equipment
Our equipment is available for lease on a per cartridge basis. There is no upfront cost for the purchase of expensive equipment that may be used only occationally.
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Secure EraseTM and Quick EraseTM are portable
Our equipment is small and light weighted. It can easily be transported to your site. Your cartridges do not have to leave their secured site before all data are removed.
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Providing the Service
Too busy to erase thousands of cartridges? We will come to your site with our equipment and erase the cartridges for you. Our fast and economical process can erase thousands of cartridges in one 8 hour shift.
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Arranging the sale of your cartridges
We can even arrange the sale of your cartridges, if you do not wish to enter the used cartridge market.
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| Contact us
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For more information please contacts us |
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email eraser@mptapes.com
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1-888-678-2737
1-888-MP-TAPES
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