Once something is online, it’s online forever. This long-held truism will stay true for decades to come, but it’s expanded far past the Internet. Once data is encoded on a device, whether it’s a memory card or an SSD, it’s next to impossible to remove completely.
In large part, this resilience is a good thing. Everything from important details in our personal lives to business logins and authentication codes is on devices people carry around all day. Those devices have to stand up to drops, spills, and weight. Even when the objects themselves can’t stand up to the damage, their memory chips usually can to salvage the data.
However, when it’s time to delete data for good, you can’t just move all the files to the Recycle Bin and press delete. Echoes of the data stay ingrained in the memory chips. This is due to the restore points, backup files, and records on secondary support software. Full physical destruction of the technology is the only way to fully protect the data before the device leaves your or your company’s hands.
How does SSD destruction protect against information retrieval?
On most secure solid-state storage devices, the data is already randomly scattered across the flash RAM cells. Encryption and other security measures provide another layer of obscurity. Physically crushing and ripping apart the physical components scatters the data even further. Even forensic methods of data recovery are unsuccessful. Look for destruction devices that:
- can handle a wide range of device dimensions. So your machine can destroy everything from USBs to smartphones and isolated circuit boards.
- offers multiple modes of destruction. Both puncturing and crushing are common methods; look for a machine that uses both or more.
- destroys both sides of the device. Both sides of memory storage devices save the data. A machine that delivers destructive impact to the top and bottom of SSDs ensures fuller destruction than top-down only devices.
If you want to make your security practices convenient, go to Phiston Technologies for SSD destruction devices that can offer twenty tons of force in a desktop device.
