Your hard drive contains a vast amount of data. Unfortunately, clearing it off your hard drive is not nearly as easy as you might think. Even when you restore a drive to factory settings and theoretically wipe all of your data from the drive, a clever and experienced computer technician can still access and restore this deleted data and gain access to any information that was ever on the drive as well as many of the usernames and passwords that you have entered in the past while using that particular hard drive.
Data Protection
This is why it is a good idea to destroy a hard drive rather than simply deleting all the data on it and hoping for the best when you plan to sell the computer or hard drive in order to prevent breaches of your personal information by anyone who manages to get hold of your hard drive in the future.
Complying with Regulations
In some locations, you must, by law, destroy your hard drives when deciding to replace or get rid of them. It depends on what industry you are working in and the specific kinds of customer data you store. However, you can be fined, at the very least, if you’re in an area having laws requiring hard drives destruction.
Space Saving
If you are trying to keep records secure, the only ways you can really do this are to destroy the data or keep the hard drives it is stored on in a secure location. The problem with storing these drives in a secure location is that these drives can be stolen. It can expose you to the issue of data theft which can prove to be a rather significant issue.
Destroying the data by hard drive destruction can help you save money and space. Moreover, it makes it less likely that this data will get stolen from you.
If you would like to learn more about the benefits of hard drive destruction or want to learn more about our available hard drive destruction products, contact us today.
