Media Destruction

What is the most secure method of hard drive destruction?

Degaussing and overwriting may not lead to secure results when trying to remove confidential information from hard drives. Total destruction by a hard drive shredder is the only way to ensure the secure disposal of the electronic information on the memory platters.

Our hard drive shredder will crush the memory platters of the hard drive to make it impossible to obtain information from it. Hard Drives are either picked up and transported in our locked vehicles to our secure plant or destroyed at your facility (minimum quantity applies). A Certificate of Destruction is provided once shredding is completed, just like our paper shredding process.

Compliant with:

• Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)
• FACTA Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• FDA Security Regulations (21 C.F.R. part 11)
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)
• HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
• Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act
• Patriot Act of 2002
• PCI Data Security Standard
• US Safe Harbor Provisions

What We Destroy Hard Drives Cassette & Cartridge Tapes CDs, DVDs, Zip and Floppy Disks Microfiche and Microfilm Reel Film And other materials

Why E-cycle? Landfilling Computers is Illegal.

In most US states, laws prevent us from depositing environmentally harmful computers and electronics into our landfills. Historically, less than 10% of obsolete computers are E-cycled; most sit in a store room or closet taking up valuable office space. However, obsolete computer equipment is the fastest growing component in our landfills. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's estimates, electronic products constitute 1% of municipal waste, with more than 63 million computers retired in the U.S. annually. E-waste is growing 3x faster than other waste, and many discarded E-waste items contain toxic materials. The average desktop computer contains heavy metals and plastics that may include mercury, lead, cadmium, chromium and lithium - all potentially hazardous to our health.

Shred Ace recycles E-waste responsibly, controlling the entire IT asset lifecycle from the moment we pick up the equipment at your location, through the destruction process, and assuring that E-waste does not end up in the hands of other companies, landfills or illegally exported to other nations.

What We E-cycle

• CPUs, Towers, Servers
• Desktops and Laptops
• Monitors - CRTs and LCDs
• Keyboards, Mice, Cables, etc.
• Handheld Electronic Devices
• Printers and Fax Machines
• Print/Copy/Scan Work Stations
• Hard Drives
• Cell Phones, PDAs
• Battery Backups.

Compliance Matters

It's just not shredding a hard drive. It's the destruction of an electronic record.
Proper destruction of electronic records is both a regulatory and legal requirement. - You must be able to prove that you routinely follow a written destruction policy. Our secure destruction services are designed to provide our clients with the necessary controls and auditable documentation to stand up to any regulatory or legal challenge of your data destruction practices.

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