What is Hard Drive Shredding?
- Definition
- Hard drive shredding is the physical destruction of hard drives using industrial shredders, reducing them to small fragments to ensure complete data destruction.
Hard drive shredding is a physical destruction method that uses industrial-grade shredders to reduce hard drives into small metal fragments, typically less than 2 inches in size. This is considered the most secure method of data destruction because it eliminates any possibility of data recovery.
Shredding is recommended for highly sensitive data, situations where drives have failed and cannot be software-wiped, or when organizational policy requires physical destruction. Industries like healthcare, finance, and government frequently mandate physical destruction for drives containing regulated data.
A proper hard drive shredding service includes secure chain-of-custody from pickup through destruction, witnessed or video-recorded shredding, serial number documentation for each drive destroyed, and issuance of a certificate of destruction. The shredded material is then separated into ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals, and other materials for recycling.
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