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Chapter 5: Media
Disposing of Tape Cartridges
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Table 8 Environment for
operating, storing, and
shipping LTO media
Disposing of Tape Cartridges
Under the current rules of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), regulation 40CFR261, the LTO Ultrium Tape Cartridge is classified
as non-hazardous waste. As such, it may be disposed of in the same
way as normal office trash. These regulations are amended from time to
time, and you should review them at the time of disposal.
If your local, state, country (non-U.S.A.), or regional regulations are
more restrictive than EPA 40CFR261, you must review them before you
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
Environmental Specifications
Environmental
Factor Operating
Operational
Storage
1
Archival
Storage
2
Shipping
Temperature 10 to 45°C
(50 to 113°F)
16 to 32°C
(61 to 90°F)
16 to 25°C
(61 to 77°F)
-23 to 49°C
(-9 to 120°F)
Relative humidity
(non-condensing) 10 to 80% 20 to 80% 20 to 50% 5 to 80%
Maximum wet
bulb temperature 26°C (79°F) 26°C (79°F) 26°C (79°F) 26°C (79°F)
1. The short term or operational storage environment is for storage durations of up to six months.
2. The long term or archival storage environment is for durations of six months up to ten years.