Ensuring Data Safety with Hard Drive Destruction: Data Destruction Services You Can Trust

Deleting files or reformatting a drive does not actually remove your data. With free recovery tools, anyone can often bring it back. Tax returns, photos, customer records and passwords can all be exposed if a drive is not destroyed correctly.

Your options

• Certified software wiping: overwrites the entire drive to government standards so it can be safely reused.
• Physical destruction: a crusher deforms the platters or chips so the drive can never be read again. This works for both hard drives and SSDs.
• Degaussing: a strong magnet erases magnetic media such as backup tapes.

Practical steps

1. Back up anything you want to keep.
2. Sign out of accounts and disable device tracking.
3. Tell your recycler you want data destroyed before processing begins.
4. Ask for a Certificate of Data Destruction for your records.

Computie offers free data wiping and destruction at our depot, on-site destruction by arrangement, and a certificate on request.