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Imagine the damage you'll have to repair if your hard drives are taken by cybercriminals. Apart from your clients withdrawing their trust in your organization, it would cost you thousands to millions to fix such a situation. You need to invest in the shredding of hard drives and other appropriate methods to destroy.

Degaussing Hard Disk Drives

It is an effective way to sanitize hard drives. It is so efficient that the NSA authorized certain methods of degaussing magnetic media in order to erase sensitive data. Degaussers are magnets equipped with fine-tuned magnets, can destroy magnetic signatures that are stored in data when they come in contact with magnet media like hdd destroyer. The oersted rating of magnetic degaussers is data destruction equipment. There are many things that determine a degausser's effectiveness however, in general, the higher the ratings in oersted is, the stronger the degausser. There are a variety of magnetic degaussers to choose from and the prices vary widely.

Disintegrating Hard Drives

Disintegrators are kinds of data destruction equipment that are used extensively in the data destruction and recycling industry to destroy many types of materials, such as metal. Hard Drive Disintegrators, similar to the Data destroyer 105 Hard Drive are designed to tackle the unique problems that come with hard drives. Disintegrators for hard drives use knife milling technology to continually break the hard drive in pieces until they're small enough to fall into the screen of the disintegrators. Although disintegrating hard drives is slightly slower than shredding hard drives, it results in a more fine residue, and a much higher level of security. A tiny amount of data can be stored on a hard drive which could contain thousands of fragments. A higher degree of destruction is probably essential when it comes to storage devices that store data, such as hard drives.

Disassembling Hard Drives

Shredding hard drives requires a type of shredder specifically designed to handle the large pieces of steel that are associated with them. Shredders for hard drives use steel cutting shafts made of hardened steel with wide gap sets along with conveyor belts that are timed to avoid overfeeding. A hard drive destroyer shredder's the shred residue isn't the same as that of a paper shredder. The shredder residue of a hard drive is made up of large chunks of steel which, depending on how it hits the shredding head, varies significantly from drive to. Customers who do not want to comply with NSA or other security standards should shred their hard drives. There are two alternatives: to run the drives for a second run, or consider a hard drive disintegrator which leaves a smaller but more regular residue.

Disable Hard Drives

The most basic way to cleanse data on the hard drive is to physically destroy it. Because many hard drives are built using steel reinforced housings, alloy platters, and aluminum physical destruction isn't as easy as it appears. This is why specialized types of equipment for data destruction are designed to handle some of the heavy lifting. There are several methods for physically destroying hard drives. They include drilling crushing, crushing, piercing, and bending hard drive. Although the platters themselves aren't completely destroyed, the bending of their platters affects the magnetic trail that holds the information. While physical destruction doesn't protect against all types of forensic data recovery but it does protect hard drives from the most frequent digital data theft.

Removing Hard Drives

Hard drive Erasure is the most commonly used method of attempting to cleanse information on a hard drive. That does not mean that it's the only method. It isn't possible to erase information on your hard disk. Instead, it will move it to a different location on your hard drive. This misperception of how "deleting" actually works is the cause of numerous cases of identity theft each year.

When you erase hard drives, we recommend the use of Secure Erase, or other overwriting methods. Even with the most up-to-date technologies for forensics, correctly overwriting a hard disk will make it impossible to recover any data. Standard software applications that perform multi-pass overwriting can take hours to finish and may miss information on damaged sectors on the drive. Secure Erase is recommended because it does not depend on the BIOS configuration of your system. Secure Erase will overwrite everything on a drive, even those with bad sectors. Secure Erase can be installed directly on almost all hdd and is much faster than any external software for overwriting. Also, you should look into other equipment for data destruction, which allows secure erase to be more simple than more complicated methods that your IT department uses.

Melting Hard Drives

For certain security experts according to some security experts, a hdd destroyer cannot be destroyed unless it is completely eradicated. The process of melting hard drives is typically used as the last stage of destruction of hard drives. Many metal recycling centres will take used hard drives and melt them in an extremely hot liquid metal vat. There's no device for destruction of data that can be purchased that will use this method. If you've ever seen Terminator 1, then you know what happens to electronics when they are in contact with molten metal. For high security applications, this step of declassification is the last step due to the increased risk of data exposure during hard drive transportation as well as delivery to non-classified or insecure places.