Secure Hard Drive Destruction Services for Your Business
Protect your information every step of the way with Shred-it’s hard drive destruction service.
Benefits of Shred-it’s Hard Drive Destruction Service
- Regularly scheduled pickups or on-site service, which allows you to see physical hard drive destruction, or off-site, at the Shred-it facility near you
- A secure chain-of-custody at every touchpoint to keep clients’ data secure throughout our shredding process
- A certificate of hard drive destruction after each service
- Material is securely recycled with local partners
- Shred-it specialists will work with your business to personalize services that your business needs
Deleting Data Is Not Enough: Why You Need Computer Data Destruction
You may be tempted to throw away your old hard drives, erase, or stockpile them in storage. But data that you think you have “deleted” from these devices can easily be recovered and stolen if you are not using a secure destruction method, leaving your business at risk.
Shred-it’s state-of-the-art destruction technology prevents even the most sophisticated data recovery attempts, permanently destroying any information that was or is on your hard drives. Shred-it's destruction machines (hydraulic shearer or crusher) are specifically designed to destroy your hard drives so that data can never be retrieved or reconstructed. This is the secure destruction of computer data you can trust.
How to Destroy a Hard Drive? Secure Destruction Techniques Explained
Shred-it's destruction machines (hydraulic shearer or crusher) are specifically designed to destroy your hard drives so that data can never be retrieved or reconstructed. Shred-it offers two approaches for permanent hard drive destruction that are tailored to fit your business needs:
Shearing Service**
Slices your entire hard drive into small pieces with 40,000 lbs. of destructive force. The process destroys the drive platters, mechanisms, and electronic components, rendering the data unrecoverable.
Crushing Service**
Punches irreparable holes through each hard drive with 7,500 lbs. of force pressure, destroying the drive platters, rippling, and fracturing the magnetic surfaces rendering the drive data unrecoverable
** Subject to local availability
Frequently Asked Questions
Why Is Data Protection Important?
How Do Companies Protect Customer Data?
How secure are hard drive destruction services?
What are the most common hard drive destruction methods?
- Shredding: Breaks the hard drive into small, unrecognizable pieces.
- Crushing: Physically deforms the drive, making data irretrievable.
- Degaussing: Uses a magnetic field to make data unreadable.
All methods ensure compliance with data protection standards.
What devices have hard drives that I should destroy?
Devices that store digital data and need destruction include:
- Desktop computers
- Laptops and tablets
- External hard drives
- Cell phones
Printers, servers, gaming consoles, and more.
Securely destroy hard drives from devices with sensitive data to prevent breaches.
What happens to hard drives after destruction?
Can I witness my hard drives being destroyed?
What are the risks of not destroying data properly?
Improper data destruction leads to:
- Compliance Violations: Fines for failing to comply with data laws.
- Privacy Risks: Exposure to identity theft and fraud.
- Reputation Damage: Data breaches can harm your business's reputation and incur high fines.
Uncover potential data risks with our Information Security Risk Assessment Tool
Failure to follow information security protocols can result in data breaches, which may lead to financial penalties or increased risks to your organization’s reputation.
Shred-it’s proprietary Information Security Risk Assessment Tool helps to identify potential data risks in your organization by evaluating your current policies, procedures, and training to provide a quantifiable estimate of data breach risk.
Missing simple information security requirements can cause your organization to be at risk. Assess your potential risk today.