You may have noticed, the Recycle Your Media team really cares about helping you decide what to do with your data when you no longer need it.

As you already know we provide you a data destruction certificate, and concerning LTO data tape media, we can assure you that with our unique erasing technology, no data will be left on the tapes after completing our process.

However, we would like to present you today another added service you can find here at Recycle Your Media: VOLSER (Volume Serial Number).

This service permits to perform a whole inventory audit, and therefore you will have complete reporting of every tape leaving your facility.

To better help you understand how important this data center service is, here are the steps of Recycling by VOLSER:

1) At customer facility we scan every barcode on every tape to be recycled

2) Data approved and a document is signed by a customer and a RYM employee

3) All tapes are placed in secure lock boxes

4) Lock boxes are then put on a dedicated truck for transport to our facility

5) Full Chain-of-Custody will be provided, you will be able to track the trucks route to our facility

6) Once the tapes reach our facility the lock boxes are placed in a locked, alarmed, video surveillance caged area

7) We then scan all the used tapes once again and report will be provided to customer to compare the scan to the first for proof nothing was tampered with during transit

8) Once 2nd report is verified we stage the used media for processing

9) All tape is sorted, counted and completely erased

10) Upon completion a certificate of data destruction and the check for the value is mailed to customer

Here is a video presenting this service:

Wherever you are in the world, you can contact us at 949-757-0100 or buyback@recycleyourmedia.com if you are interested in having an exceptional FREE tape audit. Indeed, for Christmas holidays, we decided to create a coupon that will permit you to get a free tape audit. Find the coupon later this week, so keep posted! 

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