Not so long ago, the best place for documents, valuables, and secure information was in a safe. A big clunky box of steel with a lock. Only a few people with that combination can access whatever was being kept out of other people’s hands. Digital information is a lot more abstract. Private information, data, documents, and access to financial accounts travel in a sea of data. They are sometimes encrypted and sent through the air on radio waves or through pulses of light in a fiber optic cable network, from server to server, systems unit to systems unit. The concept that information is held in just one metal box have been lost over the last few decades. It seems like information can be deleted with something as easy as a drag and drop to the waste basket.
Anyone who has experienced a crash on their computer or server also understands the impermanence of their data. One minor glitch, a hardware failure, or a corrupted installation of an operating system file, and *poof*, information is lost. Never to be seen again. Or is it?
Ironically enough, that metal box that houses the hard drive and CPU on your computer has a lot in common with the metal box that used to hold money, birth certificates, passports, and other valuable information. In reality, when your system becomes outdated, hardware fails, or you just hit Delete, none of it actually went anywhere. It’s essentially the same thing as losing the combination to a safe. Everything is right where you left it. A series of ones and zeroes, pits on a metal disk deep in your computer. If it lands in the wrong hands, it can be completely restored, retrieved, and also used for whatever purpose they want.
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A hard disk crusher is an equivalent of taking that broken safe and mangling it and the contents that were lost inside. Your files, personal information, pictures, private data are rendered completely useless and irretrievable when a press with dozens of metal teeth are puncturing and crushing the hard disk itself. So when you upgrade your systems and network, it won’t be like a sealed safe full of your treasures is just lying around for anybody who wants to crack it open. You can count on total security for your data when you use a Phiston hard disk crusher. Contact us to find out how!
