Secure hard drive shredding

Hard drive shredding can handle various types of drives, including traditional spinning hard drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), and other storage media like USB drives, CDs, DVDs, and tapes.

Yes, hard drive shredding is one of the most secure methods of data destruction. By physically destroying the drive, you eliminate any possibility of data recovery, ensuring complete protection of sensitive information.

Compliance: failing to securely dispose of confidential materials could mean non-compliance with data protection regulations, leaving you exposed to potential data breaches and hefty fines. With Restore Datashred hard drive shredding, which shreds discs down into 4mm fragments, you’ll know that your confidential information is completely unrecoverable, completely destroyed in fact, with an unbroken chain of custody.

Sustainability: hard drive shredding answers concerns about compliance with WEEE regulations, and with meeting your environmental targets. We not only reduce hard drives and other media into tiny fragments, but we also then dispose of them by recycling and re-purposing them. We never bury them in landfill. This, along with our own company commitments to more sustainable transport and working practices and environments, is part of our own commitment to sustainability that, in turn, benefits you.

Degaussing is a method of erasing data from a hard drive by disrupting its magnetic field, while hard drive shredding physically destroys the drive. Shredding is considered more secure because it eliminates any possibility of data recovery, whereas degaussing may not be effective on SSDs and still leaves the drive intact.

This will be subject to the availability of the service, the volume of products and the type of destruction involved. Typically, all items will be destroyed within a relevant time frame from collection however to find out more please speak to a member of the sales team.

Restore Datashred destroys hard drives into 4mm fragments. This level of shredding ensures that the data is completely unrecoverable, meeting high-security standards and providing peace of mind for confidential information destruction.

Restore Datashred’s hard drive shredding process is meticulously designed for data safety and regulatory compliance. We maintain a secure chain of custody from collection to destruction, ensuring minimal risk of data breaches. Our certified shredding process reduces hard drives to small fragments, guaranteeing data recoverability and meeting stringent security standards. We operate in full compliance with data protection regulations, including GDPR, and provide an auditable process for documented proof of secure destruction. All staff are thoroughly vetted and trained in data security protocols. These comprehensive measures ensure your sensitive data is handled with the utmost security and in accordance with all relevant regulations.

Witnessing the hard drive shredding process is possible exclusively with our on-site shredding service however recording and visual equipment is not permitted. Due to security protocols at our secure facilities, witnessing or recording is not available for off-site collections. However, for all hard drive shredding services, we provide a Certificate of Destruction to document the secure disposal of your hard drives, ensuring complete peace of mind. Contact our sales team to find out more on 0800 376 4422.