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Data Destruction

Your Best Choices for Hard Drive Destruction

Shredding Degaussing Overwriting

Hard drive destruction is an attempt at ensuring the hard drive of a computer is unreadable. This is the best way to make to truly secure your private information. The following are ways in which one can attempt to destroy a hard drive and the information stored on it:

· Hard Drive Shredding - Physically destroying a hard drive by shredding it is an effective and effective means of making your hard drive unrecoverable

· Degaussing - Degaussing a hard drive is the act of utilizing a very specific and extremely powerful magnet to wipe out any information contained on a hard drive.

· Overwriting - Overwriting a hard drive incorporates software designed to alter the information contained on a hard drive by changing the binary code (1’s and 0’s) so that all information is no longer contained in its original format.

Though there are three ways of destroying hard drives, only shredding provides 100% security and cost effectiveness of hard drive destruction. Hard drive shredding provides the fastest means of hard drive destruction and is the only way to be completely sure that it will never be recovered.

Loss of sensitive information can cost your company millions if not the company. Utilizing hard drive data destruction services will insure your are incompliance with HIPAA and other legislation set in place. The cost effectiveness of hard drive destruction by shredding is unparalleled to any other means. This is driven by the fact that the drive is only handled one during the destruction process.

Criteria to Consider when Selecting a Company to Destroy your Hard Drives

· How thorough the means of destruction is; do they offer a guaranteed option

· Will you receive a certificate of destruction?

· Is the service provider in compliance with current HIPAA and other laws governing the information; thus protecting yourself and your clients.

· Does the facility officer a secured storage location for your drives?

Asking questions such as these will give you a good idea of what the company is capable of. It will insure you’ve done your due diligence and therefore validating you selected the right company to accomplish this important task. It also provide you peace of mind knowing that the hard drive destruction service you are choosing is working to ensure that your hard drives are destroyed :

1. Properly and in a manner suitable to your standards

2. In compliant with the government’s current legislation

3. Abide by the rules and guidance under HIPAA.

Gill Digital is a premier manager of all data to include hard drive gauging and shredding, both resulting in the ultimate destruction of sensitive information. Our high-tech shredding technology can turn a hard drive into little pieces of scrap metal and plastic. We offer secured on site containers to place the drives, pick up and transport to our off hard drive destruction facility. Upon completion we issue you a certification of destruction.

Whether you have 1 hard drive or 1,000,000 hard drives, we have a hard drive destruction program for you. We will physically insure accountability and validate that your drives are destroyed into little pieces insuring the stored or erased data is un-recoverable.

Please contact Gill Digital today to get a quote for your hard drive destruction needs.