Imagine how much damage you'll have to repair when your hard drives are taken by cybercriminals. This will not only cost you thousands to millions to correct this situation and could result in clients losing faith in your company. You need to invest in hard drive shredding and other appropriate methods of destruction.

Degaussing Disk Drives

Degaussing hard drives can be an efficient method of sanitizing. It's so effective that the NSA authorized certain methods of degaussing magnetic media to destroy sensitive data. Degaussers, magnets with fine tuning magnets, will destroy magnetic signatures that are stored in data when they come into contact with magnetic media, such as hard drive destroyer. The oersted rating of magnetic degaussers refers to data destruction equipment. There are many things that affect the effectiveness of a degausser, but in general the higher the Oersted rating, the more powerful the degausser. There are numerous magnetic degaussers on the market and prices for them can vary widely.

Disassembling Hard Drives

Disintegrators are kinds of data destruction equipment which are extensively used in the data destruction and recycling industry to eliminate various kinds of metal, for example. Disintegrators for Hard Drive Disintegrators, similar to the Data destroyer 105 Hard Drive were designed to deal with the specific problems that come with hard drives. Disintegrators for hard drives use the knife milling process to constantly cut the hard drive in pieces until they're tiny enough to pass into the screen of the disintegrators. While disintegrating hard drives can be a bit slower than shredding hard drives the result is a much more fine residue, and a much higher level of security. Even a small fragment of a drive has the potential to hold hundreds of bits of potentially dangerous information. It is crucial to create a greater level of destruction in the case of storage devices, such as hard drives.

Shredding Hard Drives

A shredder is needed to cut hard drives. It should be capable of handling the massive chunks of metal associated with these drives. Hard drive shredders use hardened steel cutting shafts with wide gap sets, as well as conveyor belts with timers to stop overfeeding. The shred residue of a hard drive destroyer is nowhere near the quality of shredder paper. The shredder residue of a hard drive is made up of large chunks of metal that, depending on how it hits the shredding head, can vary significantly from drive to. This is why we generally recommend hard drive shredding for those who aren't seeking to satisfy NSA or other government security standards. Two similar options would be to run the drives for a second process, or to consider the use of a disintegrator for hard drives that creates a less regular residual.

Destroying Hard Drives

The most basic way to sanitize information on the hard drive is to physically destroy the drive. Since many hard drives are made of steel reinforced housings, alloy platters, and aluminum, physical destruction isn't as simple as it seems. To aid in the weight, specialized devices for destruction of data have been created. There are a variety of methods to physically degrading hard drives. This includes drilling crushing, crushing, piercing and bending hard drive. While the platters aren't totally destroyed, the bending of their platters affects the magnetic trail that holds the information. While physical destruction in this manner doesn't protect against any forensic techniques for recovering data however it can protect hard drives from most of the most common forms of digital data theft.

Deleting Hard Drives

Hard drive Erasure, which is the most well-known method to clean up data on hard drives, is also called "Hard drive Erasure". However, that doesn't mean it's always the most effective method. It isn't possible to erase data on your hard disk. Instead it can be moved to another place on your hard drive. This misconception of how "deleting" works is what leads to identity theft in many cases each year.

In the event of erasing hard drives we highly suggest using Secure Erase or any other method of overwriting. Even with the most up-to-date in forensic technology, properly writing a disk render it unrecoverable any data. Multi-pass overwriting is a tedious process that can take a long time and might not contain information about damaged sectors. Secure Erase is recommended because it doesn't depend on the BIOS settings of your computer. Secure Erase can overwrite any files on the drive, including bad sectors. Because Secure Erase is built directly into almost all hard drives now days and is a lot quicker than external overwriting program. Make sure you look into different data destruction equipment that will make the implementation of secure erase much simpler than the more complicated methods utilized by your IT personnel.

Melting Hard Drives

As per security experts, a hard drive destroyer isn't destroyed unless it has been completely removed. It is generally used as the last stage of hard drive destruction. Metal recycling facilities accept used hard drives as scrap metal and throw it into a hot vat of liquid metal that is hot. There's no data destruction equipment that you can purchase that can apply this method. If you've watched Terminator 1, then you know what happens to electronics if they come into contact with hot metal. In the case of high-security applications, this step of declassification should be performed final due to the prolonged risk of exposure to data during hard drive transportation and delivery to non-classified and insecure locations.