Electronic Media Destruction

Hard Drive Destruction

Have your hard drives securely destroyed at your location, right before your eyes, with just one call to Gator Shredding.

Physical destruction of your hard drive is your best defense against a data breach.

Why is Hard Drive Destruction Critical?

Data thieves are always lurking, waiting for the opportunity to steal any pieces of personal information that they can. Even those who are the most diligent about paper shredding can easily overlook the risks presented by their discarded electronics.

Hard drives are found in most devices that must store data: printers, smartphones, and computers. When these devices are decommissioned or discarded, they are typically sold or donated with their hard drives intact. Given that a single 1 GB hard drive can contain the equivalent of 500,000 papers, this presents an enormous risk.

Now, this might not seem like such a big deal. After all, erasing your old files will solve the problem, right? Unfortunately, wrong.

The Importance of Hard Drive Shredding

Even after your files have been deleted, an imprint of them remains on the device. If the wrong hands take possession of your old hard drive, every piece of data you ever entrusted to it can be recovered and stolen.

Hard drive shredding is the only method guaranteed to protect your data from theft. By physically destroying the hard drive, you make it impossible to retrieve any data it still held. Once the hard drive has been crushed or shredded, the device itself can be safely donated or recycled at an eWaste Recycling Event.

Hard drive shredding is perfect for all customers, regardless of whether you’re cleaning out a few old computers from your home or you have an entire storage room of decommissioned company drives.

Contact our staff to arrange a shredding appointment, and our trained technicians will arrive to safely destroy your hard drives and remove the pieces for recycling. As with all our shredding services, you’ll receive a Certificate of Destruction verifying that your data has been destroyed according to all legal and federal privacy regulations.

Our Hard Drive Disposal Process

• We come to your location to destroy your hard drives on-site
• We record the serial numbers of each hard drive before destruction
• We use our powerful Hard Drive Crusher to render your data completely  unrecoverable
• After crushing, the pulverized pieces of your hard drive are recycled and the raw materials are used to make new products
• We provide Certificates of Destruction which lists each hard drive, including the serial numbers we recorded before destruction
• Hard drive destruction can also be done at our plant facility with a scheduled appointment

Your data deserves real protection. Call Gator Shredding to make it happen.