5 Reasons To Perform Hard Drive Shredding

By Author: Billy Addison
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Many of the large companies I work with, specifically in the healthcare, law, finance, and business management industries are frequently asking about the benefits of choosing physical hard drive destruction, and more specifically on-site hard drive shredding.

Although DoD wiping is a secure and documented method of destroying data on retired computer and storage equipment, it is very reasonable in some cases to seriously consider hard drive shredding services.

1) Hard drive shredding provides security and peace of mind.

Plain and simple: On-site data destruction removes all risks associated with transporting disposed media containing sensitive data and helps your company quickly and easily audit the data destruction vendor by being present at the time of the destruction.

Hard drive shredding eliminates any chance of data breaches resulting from the improper handling of retired electronic media.

2) Time is money and proper hard drive shredding services saves your business both.

It's a hackneyed saying, but it is truer now than ever before. Your technicians that are hammering, drilling, ...
... wiping, and degaussing drives could be using their time solving problems and working on the projects you need completed to run your business.

Mobile shredding machines can destroy an average of one thousand drives an hour. Account for how much time your staff is spending on wiping and destroying drives, as well as some of the more crude physical hard drive destruction tactics are just not as effective for protecting data.

3) The Future Is Unclear

One wipe, three wipes, seven wipes, DoD approved software methods of data sanitization all work to securely destroy your data by overwriting the drives with a pre-determined pattern of meaningless binary code.

This process is highly regarded as an end all solution, however many times what seemed impossible today is a reality tomorrow. Consider what the replications of what an unlikely breakthrough in data recovery could mean for all of the hard drives you did not physically destroy.

4) Your Equipment is Obsolete

If the equipment you are retiring is obsolete there is no reason to be paying for the drives to be wiped as there is no legitimate market for the equipment to be resold on. Be wary of any vendor
that is looking to purchase hard drives or equipment containing data for prices above market value, or in general for equipment that is obsolete or heavily damaged.

Hard drive shredding is a quick and cost effective solution for destroying your obsolete storage media as well as handling the appropriate recycling of electronic waste.

5) You're Already Shredding Every Day

Odds are your company set aside a large budget of labor time or money to an outside shredding service in order to shred paper documents containing information that has to be legally or otherwise destroyed.

The hard drives in your server rooms and desktops most likely contain significantly more information than that on the paper you're shredding. Make a push at your company to set aside a real budget to protect your end of life data.

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