AUTOMATED DISC DESTRUCTION SYSTEM
We apologise that due to the wearing out of our Piranha disc destroyers we cannot offer this service.
All we can suggest is that you run the discs through a shredder, which is very messy, or cut them which makes them
very very difficult to restore.
Alternatively send them for recycling, but this is not secure destruction.
Should you find an alternative technology, please let us know.
It is possible that some of the document destruction services
may offer this service.
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Piranha Dimpling system made the disc unreadable, but they seem to have gone out of business in the USA.
- No shredded pieces to dispose of to do damage.
- CD-ROM Services arranged recycling of media.
- Speed of 5 discs per minute.
- You could supervise the destruction yourself.
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Cost of disc destruction service: |
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| 100 discs or less |
$25 |
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More than 100 discs |
$25+ $0.25 per disc |
On a CD the top surface, under the silver coating or printing, is the area where the data is stored. The Piranha rollers dimple both sides of the disc, damaging the data storage area as well as the underside.
Although theoretically by severe polishing you may be able to remove the dimples from the underside of the disc, the dimples made into the data storage area will make the disc unrecoverable.
DVDs have their data stored like a sandwich in the middle of the
disc, so these theoretically could be restorable, although we have
been unsuccessful in polishing the underside sufficiently to read the
DVD.
CD-ROM Services Pty Ltd, pioneers in disc duplication, has over 30 automatic Rimage CD and DVD Duplicators and disc printers at their shop in North Sydney, and is capable of burning over 300 discs simultaneously. The company offers same day disc duplication, disc printing and CD and DVD packing in quantities from one to thousands.
CD-ROM Services used to supply the Piranha Disc Destruction System at a cost of $795.00 including GST, plus delivery.
The Piranha System is designed for fast and easy CD media destruction at an affordable price point. Now organisations or even consumers can permanently destroy their sensitive data stored on CD media and ensure that information does not end up in the wrong hands.
Featuring a proprietary disc handling system designed to provide long term reliability and a small desktop footprint, the Piranha gives users the ability to adhere to new government standards that require proper media disposal, including USA Sarbanes – Oxley and HIPPA standards.
An industrial strength dimpling system renders the CD media
unreadable, even by sophisticated forensics platforms, and keeps the
CD media material intact to prevent environmental hazard.
For quick and efficient CD media destruction, the Piranha is the best choice available today.
PIRANHA AUTOMATED DISC DESTRUCTION SYSTEM
Fast Operation: Destroys up to 5
discs per minute
Volume: 100 disc input hopper
Mechanism: Dimples media instead of
shredding for environmental protection
Rugged enclosure and grinding system for long term use.
Small desktop footprint.
Size: 14”L x 8”W x
11”H Weight 7 lbs
Patent Pending
PIRANHA PRESS RELEASE
Contact:
Bernhard Kirschner
CD-ROM Services Pty Ltd
Australia 0416 23 7667
brk@cdroms.com.au
You can easily shred and recycle confidential documents, but what do you do with CDs full of confidential data?
CD-ROM Services Pty Ltd, pioneers in disc duplicating services, now offer an environmentally friendly solution for CDs that hold old confidential information, with the Piranha Disc Destroyer.
Just bring them to CD-ROM Services Pty Ltd at 66 Berry Street in North Sydney, where you can run them through their Piranha Disc Destroyer yourself, and then have the now unreadable discs recycled by CD-ROM Services Pty Ltd.
The charge for this service for small quantities of less than 100 discs
is $25, or for 100 or more discs, just $25 + 25c per disc, taking
about 10
seconds to destroy each disc.
CD-ROM services can also sell you a Piranha Disc Destroyer for $795.00.
The Piranha disc destroyer renders the discs unreadable
by squeezing the discs in its industrial strength double sided
dimpling system, rendering them unreadable, even by sophisticated
forensic platforms.
The CD material remains intact to prevent environmental hazard, and
will be recycled.
So if you care about the environment, but you are concerned about privacy you know what do you with those old CD-Rs holding confidential information!
NOTE ABOUT RECYCLING DISCS: CD-ROM Services Pty Ltd will
accept small quantities (up to 100) of discs at no charge and ensure
that they are recycled. As we pay for collection, boxes of discs will
each attract a $5-00 shipping charge, or contact us for our recycling
factory address to send large quantities directly. We can also accept
Jewel Cases, although these can be recycled in your domestic plastics garbage recycling.
About the PIRANHA automatic disc destroyer
The Piranha is an automated CD media disc destruction device designed for Government, Corporate, SMB and Home Office environments. Featuring a unique patent pending media handling system designed by Condre Technology’s experienced engineering team in the USA. The Piranha offers a 100 disc capacity and can destroy up to 6 CDs per minute. The unit operates a robust mechanism that dimples the disc makes the disc unreadable even by high end forensics system, rather than grinding or shredding it, thus protecting the environment and the surroundings.
Commented Bernhard Kirschner, CD-ROM Services Pty Ltd director, "Adding disc destruction to our product portfolio makes perfect sense with the advent of recent privacy regulations and the onset of data theft creating a need in the marketplace. The Piranha’s price point and superior design make it the system of choice for automated disc disposal requirements."
The Piranha is economically priced at $795.00, and is
available from an CD-ROM Services Pty Ltd and authorized dealers.
The Piranha is an easy to use office appliance that also features
long term reliability and with its one button operation makes it
usable by virtually anyone.
Review: Condre Piranha Disc Destruction System
By Stephen F. Nathans - Posted Jun 12, 2006
In the fall of 2002 I went to Japan on a Panasonic press junket. While the ostensible purpose of the trip (which brought together several dozen journalists from around the globe) was to attend the CEATEC show in Tokyo (similar to CES here), we were also treated to several days of exposure to all things Panasonic. We toured a plasma-screen manufacturing plant, and spent a full day in Panasonic's main headquarters in Osaka.
But the coup de grace (appropriately, on the final day of the junket) was a visit to Panasonic's METEC recycling plant. There we learned about Japan's massive, systematic recycling efforts for all manner of household appliances, and Panasonic's extensive involvement in this startlingly successful national effort. The highlight of this tour was the 15 minutes we were allowed to spend watching (on closed-circuit TV) a monstrous contraption called Jaws suck refrigerators into its talons and with huge metallic "teeth" crush and chomp them into oblivion. I could have watched it all day.
In the U.S., we aren't quite so committed to recycling on a national level as the Japanese. There's no national mandate that compels it in most quarters, and the stubborn individualism of the American populace would make it difficult to impose such a program in this country, disappointing as that may be. And in the mass-market consumer world of audio CDs and DVD movies, by and large, when we're done with discs, we throw them away.
But in mission-critical archiving environments--government agencies, financial institutions, and many types of corporations--where the data stored on CDs and DVDs must remain secure and infiltration-free even after that data is no longer in use, we need systematic ways of destroying discs. In government settings and publicly traded companies we also need ways of destroying discs that meet federal requirements for environmentally sound data and media destruction such (not everyone in the U.S. has a choice about these things). The trick is to destroy the data without destroying the media itself, which creates potential environmental hazards and, well, tends to make a mess.
Enter the Condre Piranha.
With its lightweight (7 lb.) and desktop-friendly footprint (11" H x 8" W x 14" D), the Piranha is as small office-friendly a document-destruction device as a desk-side paper-shredder. If you need to put discs out to pasture in quantity and can't afford the security risk of simply throwing them away, you need this kind of system. The Piranha lists for $399, and meets current federal regulations for the proper disposal of electronic data.
In spite of its evocative name, the Piranha has little in common with Panasonic's ravenous Jaws. Its appetite for destruction is not nearly so dramatically manifest in the way that it takes care of its business. Most of us imagine CD/DVD destruction as something you do with a hammer; fortunately, working with the Piranha is a lot more efficient and a lot less messy than that approach. Instead of breaking or grinding down the discs, the Piranha's rollers imprint dimples on both sides of a disc (CD or DVD) that render it unreadable.
It doesn't dimple the print surface of inkjet-printable media, but that doesn't stop it from destroying the readability of the disc; it cuts into the data layer from the other side, which is really all that matters. All the discs I ran through the system were completely useless afterwards when tested in various drives around the office. Although DVDs and CDs are constructed differently, in terms of how the layers of the disc are bonded and where, physically, the data is stored, the Piranha's dimpling approach proved in my tests to be equally adept at rendering unrecoverable the data on CDs and DVDs alike.
The Piranha is also an automated system. While the automation didn't always work flawlessly for me (that is, it didn't always pull the discs into the rollers from the input hopper without a little prodding), when everything was operating smoothly it destroyed about 7 discs per minute, which seemed like a pretty solid pace. The input hopper provides for stacking up to 100 discs to use the Piranha at its full automated capacity. When the system detects that the input hopper is empty (and, admittedly, it sometimes detects this even when discs are loaded), it stops operation automatically.
For more information on the Condre Piranha, visit www.condre.com.
About CD-ROM Services Pty Ltd
CD-ROM Services Pty Ltd is a leading disc duplicating
service, having pioneered CD archiving and duplicating in Australia.
CD-ROM Services Pty Ltd is one of the largest disc duplicators in the
world, and are founding members of the International Disc Duplicating
Association.
CD-ROM Services Pty Ltd has pioneered disc duplicating services, with
the goal to create customer value by focusing on absolute
reliability, using over 30 automatic Rimage disc duplicators and printers
and only high grade media.
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