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Hard Drive Shredding-USA

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    What Exactly Is Hard Drive Shredding?

    Hard drive shredding/crushing is one of the effective physical methods to destroy a hard drive platter’s information and functionality. This involves dismantling and decoupling the device from the equipment chassis and disassembling the hard drive. Certain machines crush the devices at the rate of 250 per hour or destroy an individual within no seconds depending on the model of destruction machine used.

     

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    Benefits of using a Hard Drive Shredding Service

    Cost-Effective

    Get rid of all unnecessary drives in bulk without compromising security under the partnership with reliable service providers. Hire our staff to get it done under your supervision without exhausting office resources.

     

    Quick Data Destruction

    Hard drive crushing/shredding is one of the quickest ways to physically destroy a hard drive. It can be done on-site or off-site depending on your choice.

     

    Environmentally Responsible Shedding

    Powerful shredders reduce the metals to tiny pieces and segregating usable material helps with recycling and reusing. It is essential to pick a service that complies with safe disposal methods and privacy norms.

     

    Why should we use shredding for Hard Drives?

    Shredders absolutely shred the drive into innumerable strips and the process is very much the same as paper shredding. However, the shredder used for data destruction is robust and shreds multiple types and sizes of hard drives. Shredding makes it highly difficult to retrieve the data, making it easy to dispose of.

     

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    All Hard Drive Types Disposed

    Various types of hard drives from servers, laptops, workstations, and others that use SSDs (Solid State Drives), HDDs (PATA (Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment), SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment), and SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) drives are disposable.

     

    What Is the Process of Hard Drive Shredding?

    The process of hard drive Shredding involves carefully planned and executed steps as follows.

     

    Preparation

    Though crushed to shreds, some data can be left behind on the crushed drives. Overwrite or sanitize the hard drives prior to crushing to make data disposal more efficient.

     

    Inventory

    It is essential to make a list of your hard drives and other inventory to track the disposal process. Always keep access to the inventory list before and after the process.

     

    Crushing of Hard Drives

    Physical crushing of hard drives is done using a machine on-site within office premises or they can be transferred to our facility. We provide a scheduled pick up also.

     

    Extraction of Rare Minerals and Working Spares

    Small amounts of gold, platinum, silver, aluminum alloys, etc. can be separated and reused. Similarly, spindles, actuator arms, and read/write heads can also be separated before crushing.

     

    Dispatch and Recycling

    We also handle the disposal of shredded material for you. We do it after proper segregation of usable and toxic material by following all safety norms before disposal and sending for recycling.

     

    Destruction Certification

    Once the drives have been disposed of, we issue a certificate stating the details of the destruction process that has been followed. Get your data disposal safe and certified with us at low prices today!

     

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    Type of drives, number of drives, off-site or onsite location, duration, and, recycling are some of the factors that determine the cost of shredding hard drives.

     

    Hard drive shredding is a physical process of data destruction. It is done to discard hard drives containing crucial data to save the discarded data from unauthorized access.

     

    First, we remove the read/write arm scratch platters with a screwdriver and break the circuit board, and then use the hard drive crusher machine to shred it.

     

    Yes, and the document provides details on the type of shredding service, location of destruction, name of service provider, order number, and other necessary information.

     

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