You have old hard drives, and your IT department has wiped them clean and sent them on to be resold or tossed out. Can you be sure that all of the private and secure information is 100% gone? According to the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID), there are about 40% of devices and hard drives that have not been wiped clean enough to keep data secure. Furthermore, that information is easy enough for the average high school student to retrieve. If you haven’t already been shredding your hard drives, you need to be doing so. Shred With Us is NAID certified and can properly shred your hard drives. So, what is the right way to shred a hard drive?

Don’t Do It Yourself

If you are an individual or a large office space, trying to shred hard drives yourself can be time consuming and expensive. There are multiple how-to videos circulating the web, but some contain useless tips and others suggest the use of chemicals. Not to mention there are regulations about dumping electronics in landfills, and you may not be familiar with the do’s and don’ts of hard drive disposal. There is a better and more secure way when you send your hard drives to our facilities. Shred With Us can also give you a certificate to show all regulations were met when shredding your devices.

How Does A Professional Destruct A Hard Drive?

We have a system that fully takes apart your old drives and completely destroys the memory system of your devices. No part of the hard drive is sent to landfills that could pose health risks or impact the environment in a negative way. Why stress yourself out or put the task of hard drive destruction to a small-time vendor you may not fully trust? Leave your old hard drives to the fully secure destruction experts at Shred With Us.

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