Chapter 5: Media
Disposing of Tape Cartridges
80 Quantum LTO-9 HH SAS User’s Guide
dispose of a cartridge. Contact your account representative for
information about the materials that are in the cartridge.
If a tape cartridge must be disposed of in a secure manner, you can
erase the data on the cartridge with a high-energy ac degausser (use a
minimum of 4000 oersted peak field over the entire space that the
cartridge occupies). The tape must make two passes through the field at
90 degree orientation change for each pass to achieve complete
erasure. Some commercial degaussers have two magnetic field regions
offset 90 degrees from each other to accomplish complete erasure in
one pass for higher throughput. Degaussing makes the cartridge
unusable.
If you burn the cartridge and tape, ensure that the incineration complies
with all applicable regulations.
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