About Hard Drive Destruction Services

 

If you’re planning on upgrading or disposing of your old computer, hard drive destruction services may be your secure solution. Many people tend to think that deleting the files or erasing the hard drive will be enough to get rid of any important information on the drive before they sell, donate or recycle a used computer. The problem with this is that there are some pretty powerful recovery programs that identity thieves can use to restore all that supposedly deleted information. The most reliable and sure way to dispose of information on a hard drive and make sure it’s gone for good is by having the hard drive shredded.

Hard Drive Destruction Services Provide Secure Disposal

Hard drive destruction services will physically destroy the hard drive by grinding it into small bits of metal with the use of blades mounted on rotary drums. Used hard drives are thrown down a chute where they are ground into tiny bits. It works much like a wood chipper, except that this machine is strong enough to chop up metal. The hard drive parts are then sorted. A magnet is used to remove the metal and the materials are sent for recycling.

Hard Drive Destruction Services Out-Perform Erasure Programs

Businesses, institutions and educational facilities often have large numbers of hard drives containing personal or sensitive data that needs to be disposed of properly whenever they upgrade or replace old computers. In this case, using a hard drive erasure program would be a slow and tedious process, since it can take quite a while to erase even a 40 gig hard drive. Today’s newer and larger drives can take hours and when several drives are involved, it may simply not be practical and in many cases not as secure as needed. Hard drive destruction services are really a more logical solution.

Hard Drive Destruction Services Meet Government Standards

New government standards require that any business that handles sensitive and personal information is responsible for disposing of that information properly, and the only real way to do that with hard drives that have reached the end of their usefulness is through complete physical destruction. Hard drive destruction services will also provide you with documentation of destruction so you have proof that the hard drive was properly disposed of and you can’t get that with a do-it-yourself erasure program.