Disk Drive Destruction Equipment
Chances are you are here because you understand the risk associated with data residing on obsolete or retired disk media.
You recognize that to reliably mitigate that risk you must assure that sensitive data on those drives is eradicated beyond accessibility. That means some form of shredding system that reduces the size of the recording surfaces to mere particles.
You may also realize that sending disk drives off-site for destruction exposes them to transportation-related mishaps.
And, very likely you have concerns about how to properly dispose of the destruction remains.
The question is: should you acquire expensive disk drive destruction equipment and do it yourself or engage an experienced, independent service provider to perform the eradication, destruction and recycling process for you?
- A third party can and should provide a verifiable, auditable eradication and destruction service with detailed reporting, certification and expert witness testimony, should it ever be needed
- A competent specialist who performs eradication services 24/7/365 will always be current with the latest industry standards, laws, regulations and environmental requirements, not to mention leveraging industry-leading best practices and technology
- By using a service you avoid the potentially large capital and operating expense associated with training your own staff and diverting them from their primary mission
- You may find that a third party expert like PeakData Services can suggest compliant approaches that involve safely and securely recovering the value in disk drives rather than physically destroying them
If you are a manager in an enterprise IT environment, make versus buy decisions are part of your daily life. Most often, they come down to determining the core competencies that you call your own and those that are best left to third parties. In a complex world where the consequences of data breaches are becoming increasingly painful, PeakData Services humbly suggests that disk data destruction and eradication are best left to us.