Imagine dropping a mirror from 10 feet off the ground and then trying to piece that mirror back together. It’s impossible. That’s the same kind of destruction offered by Phiston’s hard drive destroyer. It literally renders a hard drive into tiny slivers and fragments than cannot be pieced back together. Twenty tons of pressure reduce the magnetic disk, the reader arm and all the enclosing hardware into a pile of shattered junk that you can toss out with the regular trash.
Utter destruction is the only way to completely ensure data on an old hard drive can never be resurrected. Simply poking a hole in the drive leaves most of the magnetic disk intact. People who understand computer hardware can easily read the undamaged parts of the disk.
The computer’s “reformat” option is not going to eliminate data either. The information is still there, just in a scrambled form. Cyber thieves know how to descramble the information and steal valuable data.
Erasing the disk with heavy duty magnets, like neodymium, also doesn’t fully erase data. It just scrambles some of the stored information.
Popular Mechanics has an article on how to recover data from a damaged drive. The story by Anthony Verducci is telling. The Popular Mechanics Crew “beat the heck out of them until we heard the signature clicking of mechanical hard-drive failure. Then we submerged one of the drives in custom-made storm-surge floodwaters (salt water, construction debris, oil) and let it soak for four days.”
The results? The first hard drive had a 99 percent recovery and drive two, in the soak, had a 100 percent recovery.
When security is the issue, only total devastation by Phiston’s hard drive destroyer is the solution. Contact us today for the only reliable hard drive destruction.
