As technology improves, convenience, ease of use, and the quantity of storage improve as well. When hard drives were first introduced to the world of computing, they replaced tape drives and the original floppy disk. It greatly reduced the physical footprint of the storage media and increased its portability. The last few decades have shown drastic improvements in the amount of information that a single hard drive can store for a computer. This information can reach users on the other side of the world through networking if necessary. It would have been hard for the early pioneers of computing with their punch cards, reel-to-reel storage tapes, and vacuum tube processors to conceive of such a thing.
Unfortunately, with every improvement in computing, there follows a need to protect this information. Unfortunately, the market for stealing information keeps pace right along with the ability to store it. Hackers find a way to undermine electronic security systems or take physical media and extract anything from the devices. Efforts have been made to erase or rewrite random code over mountable storage drive information. Still, industrious information thieves always seem to get around these safeguards. This includes banks, doctor’s offices, businesses, personal computers, and all stops in-between.
The trusted way to permanently dispose of sensitive information on a physical drive is with a hard drive crusher. Phiston Technologies specializes in hard drive crushers that are either stand-alone devices or server rack-mounted. The power of tungsten carbide-tipped teeth crush, pierce, and also mangle the surface of the hard drive platter beyond the usability of any media reader. A waste receptacle contains the pieces easily emptied for an added security layer or to prevent injury to the user.
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