Hard Drive Destruction Service

As many as 86% of businesses don’t use a professional service to physically destroy old hard drives, USBs or other hardware that contain confidential information.¹ Only physical hard drive destruction & secure disposal of the remains ensures the data on an old hard drive is 100% destroyed.

_{¹Source: Shred-it 2017 Security Tracker Survey Australia powered by IPSOS}

Examples of items suitable for hard drive destruction service & secure disposal by Shred-it. These include old and new hard drives inside desktop PCs and laptops.

Your old technology could make or break your business.

If your hard drive disposal process includes erasing, reformatting, wiping or degaussing old hard drives, you and your customers are still vulnerable. In fact, as long as the drives are physically intact, private information can still be retrieved.

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Why choose Shred-it for hard drive destruction?

Shred-it applies the same proven, state-of-the-art, chain of custody protocols for hard drive destruction as we do for document destruction, ensuring safe, secure destruction of your media.

Regularly scheduled collection or one-off service
A secure chain of custody at every touchpoint
A certificate of hard drive destruction after each service
Material is securely recycled with approved partners

How to destroy a hard drive.

Shred-it's destruction machines (hydraulic crusher or shredder) are specifically designed to destroy your hard drives so that data can never be retrieved or reconstructed. Only complete, physical destruction will ensure that your digital data is permanently destroyed. Shred-it offers two options for permanent hard drive destruction:

Shredding Services**

Shreds your entire hard drive into small pieces using industrial grade destruction equipment. The hard drive shredding process completely destroys the drive platters, mechanisms, and the electronic components rendering the data unrecoverable.

Crushing Services**

Punching an irreparable hole through each hard drive with 3,400 kilos of force pressure. Completely destroying the drive platters, rippling and fracturing the magnetic surfaces and rendering the drive data unrecoverable.

_{** Subject to local availability}

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Shred-it's better-than-industry tools for a hard drive destruction service.

Shred-it Secure Chain of Custody

Our better-than-industry standards start with our secure chain of custody protocols. We invest in the latest technologies to ensure end-to-end tracking of your hard drives:

Barcode scan at every touchpoint
Tamper-proof containers keep hands off your materials
Locked trucks and secure containers keep information safe in transit
GPS-tracked fleets
Secure, monitored facilities

A Shred-it team member completing a hard drive destruction service with a Certificate of Destruction. This ensures compliance with data protection regulations.

Get Proof of Protection.

Following every hard drive destruction service, you will receive a Certificate of Destruction confirming that your material has been collected for secure destruction. More than peace of mind, your Certificate of Destruction assists in providing an audit trail, helping you to demonstrate your commitment to ensure compliance with data protection regulations.

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