Securely destroying your hard drive will help make sure that your company’s data isn’t retrievable.

This section explains more about the hard drive shredding and hard drive destruction process. It highlights some of the different methods that professional hard drive destruction companies use to ensure your data is completely unrecoverable.

Hard Drive Destruction

Hard Drive Shredding: The Process & How Much It Costs

by | Updated May 28, 2019 | Hard Drives | 3 min read
Hard drive destruction is important for your own security as well as compliance with laws like HIPAA that also have destruction requirements for hard copies. To ensure information is securely destroyed, there are 3 main ways to go about it: formatting, shredding, or degaussing. Watch the video or read...
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How Hard Drive Shredding Works

by | April 19, 2019 | Hard Drives | 4 min read
It is important for any business to protect sensitive or confidential data. While electronic information is already covered by privacy laws like HIPAA and FACTA, no less care should be taken when dealing with the hardware that contains that information. Depending on the methods you use when retiring old...
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Erasing Your Hard Drive is No Longer Sufficient

by | Updated May 30, 2019 | Hard Drives | 4 min read
  Contrary to what most people may believe, permanently erasing files from your computer isn’t as simple as dragging to the Recycle Bin on your desktop. There is an entire industry based around recovering deleted files and lost information from hard drives. All over the internet, you can even...

Three Simple Reasons to Get In On Hard Drive Shredding

by | Updated May 20, 2019 | Hard Drives | 6 min read
When you think of office equipment commonly seen in the workplace today—ranging from the standard computer to the ancient fax machine and nearly everywhere in between—many of these electronics have a hard drive. Over the past five years, hard drives have become an increasingly larger target for security breaches in the...

Degaussing a Hard Drive Vs. Erasing It

by | May 1, 2015 | Hard Drives | 2 min read
It’s easy to see the importance of destroying the information on your hard drives. Just one hard drive can be the equivalent of a room full of documents. Before you send of your computer to be recycled you need to make sure that it is cleaned. While it may...

Why Electronic Media Destruction is Critical

by | Updated January 19, 2018 | Hard Drives | 5 min read
Improper disposal of electronic media has caused headaches for businesses and individuals for decades.  Digital information is one of the highest value assets, and is the most commonly targeted data in any security breach. Personal information on employees and customers along with critical operational and financial documents can bring...

What is on my Hard Drive?

by | November 11, 2014 | Hard Drives | 2 min read
It is a known fact that you want to make sure you destroy your hard drive before you dispose of it.  Why do we care so much about making sure that our hard drives are destroyed to begin with though?  What information do our hard drives retain that would...

What Can Be Accessed On A Hard Drive

by | September 19, 2014 | Hard Drives | 2 min read
We have all been faced with having to figure out what to do with one of our old hard drives.  When you get a new computer it can be a hassle to figure out exactly what you need to do with your old hard drive.  There are plenty of...
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The Difference Between Hard Drive Shredding vs Degaussing

by | Updated November 16, 2018 | Hard Drives | 2 min read
It could be devastating to your privacy to just throw away an old computer and hope that no one would try to access your information. Degaussing a hard drive and shredding one accomplish the goal of destroying information, but they do it in different ways. The Importance of Hard...