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The most simplistic answer in this case would seem to be "Yes".
Reading the replies so far does lead me to think that the following may be
worth considering:
1) Make and "image" of the drive and store this image on tape, a server or
some form of WORM media. This saves the information and frees up the
hardware.
2) The company I work for employees a simplistic but effective policy: No
one has access to their local drives. All data is stored on the server
without exception. Perhaps not always possible, but it does solve the issue
of needing to store hardware for a difficult to determine length of time.
Just my two cents.
Chris
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From: Margaret Duncan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 18 November 2005 04:12
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Subject: departing employees hard drives
Hi everyone:
A question has come up in discussion that I thought my esteemed colleagues
would be able to help with. When an employee leaves the company (in this
case a financial institution) what do you do with their hard drives?
Recently it was decided to keep the hard drives for three years and then
wipe them clean and reuse them. I had suggested that they make a copy of
the hard drive and store on an isolated server for the retention period, but
in order to do this there would be compression of the information. Someone
felt that this altered the record and said we couldn't do it. So we
physically store the hard drives for three years in the records center. The
reason for keeping the hard drives are two fold -- regulatory and
administrative
My questions is this:
Does compressing data alter the record? If so wouldn't this mean that other
compression methods are altering data? Even if it does alter the data can
it be reversed? I know compression changes the size, but not the
information as far as I know.
Thanks in advance for all your ideas.
Meg Duncan, CRM
Boston, MA
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