Recycle Your Media is looking to pay competitive rates for new and used Ultrium tapes. Bring in your excess inventory of new and used tapes and we’ll give you cash or store credit in return!

The process is quite easy:

1. Send us a list of what you have; format, version, brand, quantity
2. A representative will audit and present you with an offer
3. RYM will provide shipping labels or send a truck to pick them up
4. Upon receipt to our facility you will be notified
5. Tapes will be placed in a secured environment before production
6. In production all tapes will be wiped of all data 100%, visually inspected, tested and certified for reuse
7. You will provided a certificate of data destruction and payment will be sent to you

Why Recycle Archived Used Tapes?

The beauty of recycling archived used LTO tapes is that you can join the green revolution that keeps useable, non-biodegradable electronics out of landfills. This is an extremely important movement that is growing day by day. Your organization will make a huge difference by participating!

You never have to worry about your archived data when you recycle. Our data certified destruction process exceeds all standards for data destructions for DOD, GLBA, SOX, HIPAA, FACTA, etc. You are 100% guaranteed that all of your data will be purged prior to being utilized by our customers.

The other benefit of recycling your used LTO tapes surrounds storage. Wouldn’t it be amazing to clear out valuable storage space? You’ll be amazed at how much space can be salvaged by recycling old tapes. Not to mention, you’ll sleep easier knowing that another organization has put your tapes to use and is benefiting greatly from your recycling effort!

Recycle Your Media, we buy used tape, sell used tape media - Recycle Your Media is the best source for data media products, data center services and offers cash or credit for your new or used tape media.

Sony has taken a major stand regarding the validity of tape for data storage and backup for the present and future. The company has officially announced that it will be working to take tape to new heights by signing a licensing deal with the Linear Tape Open (LTO) consortium to produce and distribute LTO-6 technologies.

You may be well aware that the LTO-5 has recently made a mark on the technology world, with its impressive density and Linear Tape File System (LTFS). While the LTO-5 has made many IT professionals quite happy, they will be even more thrilled when the LTO-6 offers more than two times the power!

The LTO-6 is set to offer 3.2TB of raw data storage capacity, 8TB with 2.5.1 compression, and a 210MB/Second transfer rate. Additionally, the new LTO version will include the LTFS and a host of other features that have yet to be announced. The advancements will not only make tape more practical for usage by leading and emerging organizations, it is surely to influence many disk storage device users to second guess the exorbitant amounts of money they are putting out by operating purely on-line data storage infrastructures.

In the case that you are unfamiliar with the LTO consortium, it is a collection of organizations (including HP, IBM, and Quantum) that have dedicated an amazing amount of time and resources to keeping tape alive. It is their goal to reveal that:

1. Tape is more cost-effective than disk, as it saves organizations numerous dollars on energy and storage costs.

2. Tape is extremely durable. Recent tests have revealed that it can last for 50 years and more and easily utilized for data recall and backups.

3. Tape has major density potential. As proven by the history of LTO tapes, density is increasing by leaps and bounds each year. It will continue to do the same in the coming years!

Both the LTO consortium and Sony have revealed the major increase in density for the LTO-6 is the result of a newly developed magnetic particle and other new manufacturing advancements that have yet to be fully shared with the world.

The groundbreaking advancements have also spurred the LTO consortium to announce the LTO-7 and LTO-8 will be released in 2014 and 2016 respectively. The LTO-7 will boast of 6.4TB of raw data storage, and the LTO-8 will offer an amazing 12.8TB. How is that for a commitment to tape!

At this point, it appears that the sky is the limit for tape technologies. More news to come, as LTO developments are shared by the powers that be!

Contact us for any tape media, I.T. recycling, shredding or any data center services need.

949-757-0100 / buyback@recycleyourmedia.com

Recycle Your Media, we buy used tape, sell used tape media - Recycle Your Media is the best source for data media products, data center services and offers cash or credit for your new or used tape media.

According to InformationWeek’s recent article “How to Protect The Big Data Archive”, there is a raging debate as to how big data should be protected and stored as data sets become larger and larger over time. Since data archives are often too large to be fully backed up, it is almost impossible to perform full backups.

Additionally, disk-only storage is amazingly expensive. Thus, organizations around the globe are increasingly having data protection embedded within their architectures. Because data sets are too large, running separate processes is quite difficult.

So what does all of this actually mean? When put simply, it means that an increasing number of organizations are creating big data environments that store intensive Web content, video, audio, images, and more. If for any reason, a specific piece of data needs to be retrieved due to a specific event (which may be triggered by a news event or court case), a particular video or picture may need to be accessed. Thus, such data needs to be ready for recall at a moment’s notice, which makes data protection more important than ever.

So, the question is, how can such large data sets be effectively protected? The answer is quite simple…firms need to get creative. Today’s storage infrastructure can include a mix of disk, “cloud storage”, and tape.

In fact, InformationWeek reports that tape should potentially play a large role within big data archiving efforts. Archive file systems nicely support tape, while active data can be stored on tape for instant access. The beauty of such a scenario is that active data can be regularly backed up onto two tapes. The first tape is used when data is first created, and the second tape can support a nightly backup. This provides double the reliability and protection.

As tape backups become a regular practices and the number of tapes stored internally increases, they can be sent for off-site storage and recalled when needed. The off-line nature of tape saves energy and lowers storage costs.

While disk is seemingly the simplest and easiest scenario, the reality is that when all data is stored online, an organization runs the risk of their data being attacked by a harmful bug (and all data lost) and costs can be exorbitant. Today’s world calls for creative solutions to big data archive, and tape is a recommended part of the mix.

Stay tuned for more information on the hot topic of big data archiving!

Contact us for any  tape media, I.T. recycling, shredding or any data center services need.

949-757-0100 / buyback@recycleyourmedia.com

Recycle Your Media, we buy used tape, sell used tape media - Recycle Your Media is the best source for data media products, data center services and offers cash or credit for your new or used tape media.

Why Tape Labeling and Initialization Services Key to Organizational Success

There is often a common theme that runs within organizations that try to manage their own data storage system upgrades and changes…the process often becomes overly time-consuming and overwhelming. This can lead to mismanagement and loss of vital data.

Unfortunately, many organizations that have mismanaged their legacy data have had to learn the hard way when vital information has been unable to be recalled. For example, if an organization’s system is hit with a bug and needs to utilize a tape backup that has vanished, there can be major consequences.

This is why many leading organizations turn to Recycle Your Media (RYM) for tape media storage system management during a system upgrade or move. Our dedicated team works to carefully label, organize, and initialize new and redeployed tape in an effort to save our clients time and money.

Data Storage Labeling

Our strategic and organized sequential and non-sequential labeling processes takes the guessing game out of the data inventory equation. Some of our dedicated customers utilize our labeling services regularly, while others use them one-time.

Regardless of how many times we work to organize a customer’s data storage system, our tape organization method is easy to follow and continue to maintain. While most organizations have the best intentions in mind when deciding to internally handle system upgrades and moves, all too often the assigned staff doesn’t know exactly how to effectively organize and maintain data storage devices.

Data Storage System Redeployment

In the case that an organization is upgrading or moving their data storage effort, our team works to make the effort as painless as possible. All tape is carefully labeled and initialized for possible use in the future.

Additionally, we make sure that our customers’ infrastructures are up and running quickly. The adage “time is money” definitely applies to the data storage world, as the longer you wait to have an efficiently running data storage system, the more likely costly system errors can occur.

Where Tape Recycling Fits into the Equation

Recycle Your Media assures all of our clients that we will discover ways to:

• Help cut down on the amount of tapes stored in-house.

• Save and even gain cash when possible.

• Discover environmentally sound ways in which to dispose of data media cartridges through reuse or shredding and turning them into Eco-friendly products.

As we work to organize our clients’ storage media systems, our team works to identify legacy tape that can be recycled and reused by other organizations. This keeps tape from landfills and incineration, both of which are harmful to the environment.

All tape that is recycled and able to be reused is bought and payment is made to our customers. It’s truly a win-win situation for all parties involved!

Recycle Your Media, we buy used tape, sell used tape media - Recycle Your Media is the best source for data media products, data center services and offers cash or credit for your new or used tape media.

In today’s world, organizations are searching for the most reliable and cost-effective manner to back up their rapidly growing amounts of data. It has been noted by the LTO consortium comprised of IBM, Quantum, and HP, that 50 to 60 percent of the world’s major businesses utilize a mix of tape and disk to both store and backup proprietary data.

More specifically, organizations are increasingly utilizing LTO Ultrium 5 for their backup solutions. There are a handful of reasons the LTO 5 (the most recent version of LTO technology) is growing in popularity, including the following:

1. Impressive Density. The LTO 5 can accommodate 3TB of compressed data, as compared to the LTO 4which allows for 1.6 TB in compressed mode. The fact that the LTO 5 offers nearly two times more density has made industry experts take notice.

2. Several Brand Options.For organizations that are brand conscious, they are quite motivated by the fact that they can choose from Maxwell, Dell, Sony, Fuji, Quantum, Imation, and HP tape.

3. Impressive Feature Set.The LTO 5 includes several features that make it easy-to-use, fast, and efficient. Cutting-edge features include data encryption, WORM, dual media partition, and to effectively manage huge databases.

4. Increased Speed.For IT managers who can’t stand waiting around, the LTO 5 is ideal because it runs at 140 MB/second. This is 15 percent faster than the LTO 4.

5. Compatibility. There are numerous organizations rooted in LTO 3and LTO 4 tape. One of the benefits of the LTO 5 drive is that it is fully compatible with both the LTO 3 and LTO 4. Data can be recalled from them as normal, which is vital for businesses and organizations that must abide by various data retention laws and regulations.

6. Linear Tape File System (LTFS).The LTO 5 is different from all past generations with respects to its extremely valuable LTFS. It allows for the LTO 5 to operate exactly like a USB flash drive. For instance, users can copy files and paste them to or from a computer drive. This simplifies tape usage by leaps and bounds by streamlining the organizational process.

7. Cost Savings. Organizations are increasingly understanding of how much money can be saved by mixing tape into their data retention and backup strategies. When data is backed up and stored offline rather than online, energy savings are quite significant. Additionally, tape is fully recyclable and reusable, which provides opportunities for purchasing tape at lower prices and gaining cash/credit for used tapeswith leading recycling firms including Recycle Your Media.

Proponents of tape are amazed at what the LTO consortium has planned for the future. Not only is the LTO 6 going to be released in the near future — the LTO 7 and LTO 8 are already planned for development! It is expected that tape density will continue to increase at unbelievable rates.

More proof that tape is alive and thriving!!

Recycle Your Media, we buy used tape, sell used tape media - Recycle Your Media is the best source for data media products, data center services and offers cash or credit for your new or used tape media.

Data Duplication & Format Conversion Made Easy

At Recycle Your Media, our team has worked to revolutionize the way leading and emerging organizations are working to both duplicate and covert data from one data storage device to the other. Much of our success is linked to our understanding of the complexity of managing data.

For instance, many of the organizations that we work with have several departments/divisions that often utilize several different types of data storage devices. They often rely on our team to simplify their systems so that data can be easily accessed at all times. Also, there are many organizations are challenged with data storage system upgrades and don’t have the manpower and/or technology to transfer data from numerous old magnetic tape formats to newer ones.

Efficiency, Simplification, Recycling & Reuse

Our team can make all the difference in the world for organizations seeking: (1) Timely data duplication and conversion, (2) Simplified organization, and (3) Data Erasure & Tape Recycling.

After data is moved from one tape format to another, it is quite common for our clients to utilize our recycling and data eradication processes. The Recycle Your Media team assesses each tape and is more than willing to pay top dollar for those that can be reused.

We also make perfectly conditioned used tape at discount prices available during the data duplication and conversion process. For example, say that Harvard University is in the process of upgrading to a new version of tape. If we have any of the newer version of tape available in certified form, Harvard has the power to save money by having our team make use of pre-owned tape. This can lead to immense savings!

Types of Media Recycle Your Media Specializes In

The Recycle Your Media team offers cost-effective and cutting edge processes for converting the following formats, and more:

• Open Reel Tape (600′, 1200′, 2400′, and 3600′)

• 3840, 3490, 3490e, 3490eXL, and 3490eMax

• 3590j, 3590e, 3592, T10000

• 3570B, 3570C, 3570CXL

• AIT1, AIT2, AIT3, AIT4 and AIT5

• MLR/SLR

• DDS-1, DDS-2, DDS-3, DDS-4, DAT72 and DDS-6

• All 4mm and 8mm

• All versions of Travan

• ¼’ Cartridge (QIC) Media

• Ultrium LTO 1, LTO 2, LTO 3, LTO 4 and LTO 5

• 3.5’ and 5.25’ Optical WORM and Rewritable

The Importance of Duplicating Data

If you are considering the duplication of your data, it is an excellent idea in today’s world. Many organizations have learned the hard way how lost data can be costly, both economically and professionally. This is why organizations such as Google utilize a hybrid solution for caring for their data and programs for constantly backing all data up.

Need advice on securing your data? We would be happy to offer suggestions!

949-757-0100 / buyback@recycleyourmedia.com

Recycle Your Media, we buy used tape, sell used tape media - Recycle Your Media is the best source for data media products, data center services and offers cash or credit for your new or used tape media.

We at Recycle Your Media are often asked how our services can make a difference for their organization. Our answer is always quite simple and straight forward: We offer unparalleled customer service that is both cost-effective and makes a major impact on the wellbeing of the environment. This is why organizations such as AIG, Harvard University, Unified Grocers, MFA Boston, McKesson, Cost Plus World Market and Hot Topic regularly rely on our services.

Understanding the Importance of Recycling in Today’s World

Our clientele includes organizations that have defined strategies for securing the health of the environment. Because of their dedication to such initiatives they are able to inspire others to do the same, while gaining positive public relations.

From a data security standpoint, they also realize that the recycling of magnetic tape can help them meet the regulations as set forth by HIPPA, FACTA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, SEC, DOD, SOX, Sarbanes-Oxley, and other regulatory bodies. In fact, they rely on our proprietary data eradication process to make sure that each and every piece of their data is deleted and their legacy tapes available for reuse by other growing organizations.

Recycling and Reuse of Tape Helps Save Money and Resources

Our customers utilize our services in an effort to save money, gain extra cash, and make tape available at discounted prices for other organizations.

In all reality, by sending legacy tape to landfills or incineration plants, perfectly good tape goes to waste. Wildly enough, only 3 percent of organizations are currently recycling tape. Our clients dare not to fall into that category because they have the power to sell their workable, legacy tape, gain cash, and protect our world against pollution. By doing this, they also help other growing organizations purchase perfectly operating used tape at affordable prices.

The recycling and reuse process is a smart way to do business. It is our passion to educate our clients and prospective clients on the multiple benefits of both buying and selling pre-owned magnetic data storage tape.

But if your organization absolutely must shred your used data tapes we do have a more eco-friendly option available.

We Truly Appreciate Our Clients!

At Recycle Your Media, we know our clients by name and we truly want to help them make a difference in the world. This requires that we carefully listen to them, answer their questions, and educate them.

For the environment to be protected, organizations around the world must be aware of the opportunities that exist. Let’s all pass on the word together!

Please call or email 949-757-0100 buyback@recycleyourmedia.com

Recycle Your Media, we buy used tape, sell used tape media - Recycle Your Media is the best source for data media products, data center services and offers cash or credit for your new or used tape media.

Tape Redeployment Services Can Help Your Bottom Line?

Simply put, instead of buying new tape media send us your used out of archive media and we will erase, test, refurbish, repackage and warranty the used media for reuse.

If you are in the process of making a major upgrade in your tape media storage infrastructure, you should seriously think about how you will effectively replace and redeploy your system. The ramifications of failing to plan can be quite costly, especially if you are responsible for maintaining industry data regulations as set forth by FACTA, HIPAA, etc. This is where Recycle Your Media (RYM) comes into the picture…

We are in the business of assuring our clients 100 percent success in revolutionizing and unifying their data tape media storage infrastructures.

It is all too easy for organizations of all sizes to forget that several media products often come into the mix. For example, it is quite common for a firm to utilize a combination of LTO, SDLT, 3592, T10000, ETC. Thus, it is important to make sure that either data is converted to the new format or older machines are kept available to access the data on tape. We understand this reality and work to educate our clients on how to best handle the process.

In order to develop a comprehensive system that makes sense for your organization, our highly personalized team will develop a strategic plan for organizing and/or moving data storage equipment. This process will most likely include labeling, initializing, and possibly shipping to various locations within your organization.

Each scenario is usually quite unique but often includes:

• Pickup of the media

• Transportation of equipment

• Data storage media inspection and testing

• Removal of old labels

• Data erasure and degaussing

• New label and internal initialization (L&I) if required

• Data destruction of all unusable or defective media

• Storage of media until redeployment

• Asset tracking to ensure accurate identification of all available media

• Shipment to new location

When data is eradicated and tapes disposed of, we provide a certificate of data destruction that can be shared with key regulatory bodies when needed. Once all is said and done, you and your organization can rest easy knowing that your data is being safeguarded and will be easily accessed for years to come.

How Tape Recycling and Other Electronics Recycling Efforts Fit Into the Mix

We currently work with organizations of all sizes to recycle legacy tape and make it available for reuse. Not only does the process safeguard the environment, it also puts money back into your pocket.

While working to organize your data storage system and/or redeployment efforts, a major part of the process is identifying tape media that you can recycle. All recycled tape that can be reused is bought by Recycle Your Media. Your organization is then provided either credit for newer tape formats or compensation in the form of a check.

In today’s world, there are many options available that will both save your organization time and money. We at Recycle Your Media are here to support your effort!

Contact us anytime 949-757-0100 or buyback@recycleyourmedia.com

Recycle Your Media, we buy used tape, sell used tape media - Recycle Your Media is the best source for data media products, data center services and offers cash or credit for your new or used tape media.

Once again, the conception that tape is dead is being debunked by a tech giant. IBM has proudly begun to chatter about its 60th anniversary of digital tape development and distribution efforts. The company is more excited than ever about LTO tape in 2012, as it works to offer tape solutions with immense densities and growing capabilities.

While disk storage costs continue to rise dramatically, IBM is proud of the fact that it is offering less expensive and bug-friendly backup options for companies of all sizes. Also, performance of tape continues to rise as the next generation of tape drives are expected to hit 525MB/sec. at only $25 per terabyte. Now that’s something to celebrate!

Jumping back in history, IBM released its first 7-track tape. Coined the 726 Tape, the device was the size of a pizza and held only 2.3MB with a transfer rate of 7.5. In today’s world, that translates to a mere 1.5 minute song held on an iPhone. Not long after, IBM released its first magnetic tape that was sued to capture data from the Eckert-Mauchly UNIVAC I. The device was humongous, and IBM’s tape held only 224KB of data.

Fast forward to 2012 and organizations around the world are benefiting from IBM’s 800GB LTO-4 with 1.6TB of compressed data. Not only is such density impressive, a tape can be bought for only $22. This is one-fifth the cost of most spinning disks, which can lead to monumental savings over the long run. Not to mention that many companies have the expensive of running many racks of spinning disk storage arrays, which takes both a heavy investment in technology and energy expenditures.

On the other hand the Ultrium Linear Tape Open (LTO) specification, the most commonly used tape solution by organizations, only costs 1.2GB/sec and 32TB of data can be stored on a single cartridge.

What about cloud storage, you may be wondering? Will that lead to the demise of tape? In recent years, many experts predicted the cloud storage inception would mean the end of tape; however, many industry experts are suggesting that tape may be the best option for backup up data. This opinion stems from the fact that the already planned LTO-6 and LTO-7 densities will be out of the world. Additionally, because LTO tape cartridges are each separate objects, a cloud provider can easily control the data that is on each tape versus being forced to have data in a single location. Also, because newer versions of LTO can be partitioned, cloud providers can offer many virtual libraries to their customers and deny all inter-accessibility.

Finally, there are discussions of tools for analytics being wrapped around tape. This will pave the way for more effective methods for sorting data. According to Lucas Mearian of Computerworld, this and the many more impressive developments are sure to make a major impact on tape’s budding future. IBM is banking on this prediction after 60 years of tape innovation.

If you are looking to purchase LTO Ultrium tape media or if you have moved away from tape and need to dispose of your old data tape media formats contact us at 949-757-0100 or buyback@recycleyourmedia.com

Recycle Your Media, we buy used tape, sell used tape media - Recycle Your Media is the best source for data media products, data center services and offers cash or credit for your new or used tape media.

How Google Proved that Disk Only Data Backup is Risky Business

It has been recently reported that a number of organizations are increasingly backing up their data stored on disk with tape. A perfect example is Stack Overflow, a leading Website with more than 95 million page views each month, which recently disclosed that they utilize both disk and tape to assure that their data is always available.

According to Stack Overflow, their use of disk backup is for fast and immediate data retrieval and tape backup for historical archiving and off-line storage. While this may seem unreasonable to some, one has to point no further than the recent Google bug that saw hundreds of thousands of e-mail accounts lost into thin air.

It was a grim day in Google’s history – one in which numerous customers thought that their e-mail accounts were lost forever. But who would guess…tape backups saved the day! According to Google, the company utilizes both disk and tape across several data centers. When disk failed, Google went into its tape archives and was able to restore all e-mail accounts.

Google has sited its reasoning for using both disk and tape as necessary because:

• A single bug has the power to instantly wipe a disk clean of data.

• Tape is a cost-effective means for backing up data – largely because it is kept offline

• Tape is durable and can be stored for decades

It is safe to say that without its reliance on tape, Google would be taking a risk that would put its millions of users at risk for lost data. Likewise, many emerging companies take a similar risk when relying on disk alone.

In an effort to develop a tape backup system, it is important to know that there are numerous formats to choose from including Super DLT1, SuperDLT2, LTO 1, LTO 2, LTO 3, LTO 4, LTO 5, AIT 1, AIT 2, AIT 3, AIT 4, AIT 5, 3592, T10000 T10K, VXA, DLT VS1, SLR, MLR, QIC and many others.

Tape can be either bought new or recycled. This is a great benefit for emerging organizations looking to cut costs, while improving data security. The recycling process includes full eradication of all data stored on each tape and a use analysis to make sure that they are in working order.

Recycled tapes can be purchased from or sold to leading organizations such as Recycle Your Media (RYM). The common scenarios are as follows:

• Organizations looking to build out their first data storage system purchase new or recycled tape from RYM.

• Organizations looking to upgrade their legacy tape data storage systems trade in their old tape and gain credit toward the purchase of newer tape formats.

• Organizations sell their legacy tapes to RYM for cash and have them recycled.

For more information on recycling tape or building out your tape data storage infrastructure, call RYM at 949-757-0100 or email buyback@recycleyourmedia.com. You can also read numerous articles surrounding tape storage on the RYM Website www.RecycleYourMedia.com.

Recycle Your Media, we buy used tape, sell used tape media - Recycle Your Media is the best source for data media products, data center services and offers cash or credit for your new or used tape media.