Understanding the Significance of Hard Drive Destruction
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PLANET SHRED Will Completely Destroy Your Data Forever
Everyone needs to think about the importance of information destruction and consider what’s saved on your computer. Personal computers probably have yearly income taxes that you’ve saved, medical records, passwords, emails, copies of your driver’s license, etc. Business owners likely have customers’ credit card information, names, addresses, and contact information. Medical practices have confidential medical information, and banks have social security numbers, birth dates, bank accounts, etc. In the wrong hands, this is dangerous!
Complete Destruction Solutions
At PLANET SHRED, we understand this evolving situation and offer specialized hard drive shredding services to meet these critical demands. Our hard drive destruction service is specifically designed to address the challenge of securely eliminating your confidential data. We provide a secure and effective solution for destroying your digital data, ensuring complete information elimination. Hard Drive Destruction services can be performed at our facility or at your location.
Our 3-Step Process
Hard drive degaussing and destruction is the most secure way to completely destroy and therefore protect your information. In fact, it is the only method approved by the National Security Agency (NSA) and Department of Defense (DOD) for the destruction of classified data stored on electronic media. Our process is NAID AAA certified, guaranteeing the irreversible eradication of sensitive information.
STEP 1: Degauss Hard Drive
Our Degausser applies an intense and fluctuating electromagnetic field to the hard drive resetting the drive to a near zero state. Degaussing permanently alters the magnetic properties of the disk, totally erasing all data previously written to the drive. Once a hard disk has been degaussed, the data is irretrievable.
STEP 2: Physically Destroy Hard Drive
Our destroyer bends, breaks and mangles the hard drive and internal components including the data platters, circuit boards, and read-write heads. This meets the toughest standards for destroying hard drives by rendering the hard drive completely inoperable.
STEP 3: Recycle Destroyed Material
We securely transport the destroyed hard drives to a NJ DEP approved recycling facility where the bits are separated into component parts and recycled. A shredded hard drive consists of various commodities such as steel, aluminum, circuit board and plastic, all of which are 100% recyclable.
Complete Audit Tracking
You need the proof and peace of mind of audit documentation that all of your electronic data was securely destroyed. PLANET SHRED can provide the Log Sheet listing the serial number of each hard drive destroyed as well as a Certificate of Destruction. Prior to destruction, all drives are secured in locked bins and can even be monitored via video surveillance to keep the chain of custody intact.
Information Elimination Specialists
And our expertise doesn’t end with hard drives. We are equipped to handle a variety of media and non-media products. Our range of destruction services includes the permanent destruction of backup tapes, CDs/DVDs, floppy disks, VHS tapes, computer accessories including monitors, keyboards, etc.
Hard Drive Destruction Prevents Data Breaches
The risks of data breaches and identity theft only continue to grow. While the most common image of a data breach involves the digital world, it can and does happen in the physical one too. Old hard drives are a prime source, and if you don’t take the right steps to destroy the data on them, they can lead to costly and damaging data breaches.
Since computers don’t last forever, it’s important to make sure that the data on the hard drive gets destroyed when you switch or upgrade computers.
PLANET
SHRED
offers
hard drive destruction services that ensure all data on your drives are completely unrecoverable.
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