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Hard Drive Shredding

Metro Green Washington DC uses secure hard drive shredding services to completely destroy. The sensitive data is stored on electronic devices safely without any data loss. By preventing it from being recovered or stolen. To prevent data from falling into the wrong hands.

A recent study by Blancco Technology Group has concluded. That 36% of the deleted data in the hard drive is not erased and is still accessible to the user. In times when electronic devices were replaced with newer models. latest technologies every year the older models and systems that reach the end of their life. Cycles must removed, replaced, recycled, or gotten rid of in a fast and secure manner. This process cannot stop with only deleting information.

All the important data that is deleted isn’t completely erased from the hard drive. And can later be accessed by retrieving residual data from the hard drives. With all the personal, financial, and confidential information at risk. hard drive shredding could be the only way to make sure your data protected

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Why Is Hard Drive Destruction Necessary for Data Protection?

Companies are updating themselves with the latest cloud. computing system to store their data. Hard disk recycling, has been a traditional way of storing data. Has lost its work lately and thus the hard drives are getting disposed of. Depending on the data and reusable aspects of the hard drive. Demands for hard drive recycling or destruction have increased for a safe. Secure, and standard hard drive disposal. If not disposed of, as previously reported in some cases. The data on the hard disk even though deleted was accessible through. The hard drive retrieval process. Therefore, the Sanitization of a hard disk requires a professional approach to hard drive destruction which brings us to the point, “what is the secure way of destroying a hard disk?”.

Hard drive crushing services is being used widely for secure data destruction. Owing to the fact that physical destruction of a hard drive is one of the best ways. To keep the hard disks unusable or non-functional. The data in the disk may be confidential and it needs a secure way of destructing. The hard drive without letting the data be accessible by anyone. Even though hard drive destruction causes the disk to physically shatter into pieces. There are regulations to make sure this is done in a proper way. The information is secured by recording the details on how. The data was removed, destroyed, and made inaccessible.

The hard disk recycling services provided by. Metro green follow a completely secure and regulated process. That is confined to the environmental and data safety regulators. Hard drive disposal services at Metro green are at comparably low costs. The tri-state area with provisions for a certificate of destruction. If needed after the disposal of the hard drive.

How We Shred Hard Drives?

Hard drive mutilation is one of the most effective ways involving. The cutting of hard drive into tiny bits by running through a shredder. A Shredder is a machine which turns any possible hard disk into tiny pieces. To destroy a hard drive in a shredder, it needs to go through a prior data deletion step. Despite rendering the drive and any data on it useless after the process. Before shredding.

The hard drive formatted. By using degausser or other data wiping/formatting techniques. Which is a preventive measure to stop anyone from accessing. The data even from a single fraction of hard disk after the process of shredding. The whole process performed under strict supervision. Only with an intent of data security and not letting any confidential data from leaked. .

Residential hard drive shredder

Get business-grade shredding services to your residence or smaller offices. To destroy confidential data and devices. The residential hard drive shredders are convenient yet powerful machines.

Which can be useful for small-scale hard drive mutilation. Unlike the old school machines which needed larger spaces. Longer hours, the newer shredding machines. Come with the capability of shredding at least 500 hard drives per hour.

Industrial Hard Drive Shredder

The scale and applications are different, but the goal is the same. Very useful for big corporations and industrial applications. Where there are large scale hard drives needed to shred. The whole procedure can done at our electronics recycling facility.

Your facility based on the requirements and shredder loads. Our Industrial grade Shredders are generally. Much bigger in size and can shred thousands of hard drives per hour. We make sure everything is done under strict regulations and provide. On-site and off-site shredding options based on the service requirement.

Shredding hard drives

Shredding of a hard drive involves sending a hard drive through a shredder. Which is a machine that cuts and crushes hard materials like metal, iron, plastic, wood. Once the hard drive passes through the shredder, it gets cut into pieces implying that it is unusable.

Hard Drive shredders are available as residential and industrial grade shredders. While residential shredders may be less efficient for large scale use or to handle load. The industrial shredders can used to crush any type of metal at scalable lengths and loads. Metro green electronics recycle provides. Their customers with the best-grade industrial scale shredders. For more efficient and large-scale shredding of hard drives.

On-site shredding

If you interested in being present while your hard drive’s data is being shredded. We can do an on-site shredding under your supervision before sending it for recycling. Our on-site shredding services can also provide you with a certificate of destruction. Which is in compliance with the hard drive disposal regulations.

Off-site shredding

If you are confident to send hard drives which have erased or want our hard drive recycling services. We can pick up and perform all the services at our warehouse in the Washington DC Metro area. Our facilities are well-equipped with quality shredders and standard processes. To recycle and destroy the hard drives securely making. Sure every detail done with utmost care and highest standards.

Degaussing Hard Drive

Even though data erasing from hard drives decreases the chances of the data being stolen. It is still possible to do so. Degaussing is a procedure used to make the data inaccessible from being read or stolen. Degausser follows the application of a magnetic field by use of a machine. which used to remove the magnetic field on the hard disks and drives. This causes the data stored on the disk to be inaccessible. This is one of the efficient methods for data wiping before hard drive disposal. Some customers like to go for degaussing before hard drive recycling. To make sure the data is entirely secure

FAQ's

How to recycle a hard drive?

A hard drive can be recycled once all the data has been removed from it. An old hard drive can either be reused or sent to an electronic recycling centre for getting it recycled

How to dispose of old hard drives?

Data degaussing followed by hard disk recycle or hard drive shredding is the procedure followed to dispose of old hard disks/drives.

How to destroy a hard drive?

Generally, a hard drive shredding procedure is followed while destroying a hard drive.

How to degauss a hard drive?

Degausser is a machine through which we degauss a hard drive. It is done by inserting the hard drive into the media drawer of the degausser and then running the degausser machine.

Where to recycle old hard drives?

Hard drives are generally recycled through an electronics recycling centre. But the option of wiping the data before recycling may be done on-site or off-site.

Does hard drive destruction service cost money?

Hard drive destruction is chargeable but it is very minimal and depends upon the quantity of the hard drives.

Hard drive shredding near me?

Metrogreen electronics recycling is an electronic recycling center which provides hard drive shredding service with utmost safety while destroying your hard drive and its data.

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