SELECTSHRED | HARD DRIVES—DESTROY THEM BUT DON’T JUST HAMMER, DRILL OR WIPE THEM
The destruction of your information on hard drives is just as important as the destruction of your information on paper. Many people believe that they can use a hammer or drill to destroy hard drives permanently. Some believe that formatting the drive or even wiping it will suffice. This is not really the case. Here is why…
Formatting a hard drive merely removes the indicators of where information is located on the drive platters. This makes it practically impossible for conventional applications to find your file information on the drive. However, specialty applications will find the file data and reassemble the files, which can then be misused. As far as wiping a drive goes, more sophisticated applications will recover the data. Yes, formatting and wiping hard drives are not 100% secure measures to destroy information on hard drives. We have heard that some folks wipe hard drives and pass them along to a friend or staff for continued use. This is as good as handing over an unformatted hard drive with confidential information to someone who should not be privy to that information. Hard drives are best not reused by anyone besides the original user.
Physical destruction of the hard drive platters is the only way to ensure complete destruction of the drive, and consequently, the information that has been recorded on the drive.
Now, the thinking becomes, if I hammer the drive into pieces or drill holes through it, I will certainly destroy the information on the drive. Well, doing so is using the wrong tools for the job, and will probably cause injury. Protect yourself from pain and medical cost by having your obsolete and damaged hard drives professionally destroyed. Furthermore, to be environmentally responsible, ensure that the method of destruction renders the destroyed hard drive components (precious metals and rare-earth metals) extractable and recyclable.
For individuals and businesses, remember to remove and destroy your hard drives and the information they contain before you recycle or throw out your old computers. It is imperative that the hard drives are not simply hammered, drilled, or wiped. Entrusting the hard drives to others if you are not sure of the hard drive destruction method they will use does not absolve you of liability if that information is ever retrieved and misused. A mobile/on-site NAID AAA Certified hard drive destruction company will use equipment and processes to destroy and dispose of hard drives efficiently, safely, economically, and environmentally responsibly. Ask to witness the hard drive destruction process. For additional information, read this link: http://www.cnet.com/news/the-right-way-to-destroy-an-old-hard-drive/.
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