Data, in any form be it large or small, is one hot commodity. That hard drive in your old laptop or desktop is a virtual gold mine. Someone is willing to pay top dollar for that informational fingerprint of your online life.
Hard drives are great things until they fall into the wrong hands. The owner falls prey to identity theft or other hard drive-induced cyber crimes.
This, in a nutshell, is precisely why you should never allow an old hard drive to see the light of day passed its useful time frame.
Now, consider what kind of data breach you might incur should the hard drive in question be installed in an old computer that you have all the data concerning your small business. See how quick data breach problems can go from bad to worse?
So, what do you do with an old hard drive packed full of personal and somewhat private data?
You put that sucker down like a wounded animal!
‘How’ to Become a Hard Drive Destroyer!
If you Google, ‘how to destroy a hard drive,’ you will get more than 4.8 million results. These results run the gamut from soaking the hard drive in gasoline and setting it on fire, to having a hard drive target practice day at your local pistol range.
While some of these are indeed meant to be funny, some do seem to offer good common sense when it comes to being a hardcore, hard drive destroyer.
The more conventional and practical advice comes from established companies, such as Phiston Technologies. Phiston has built a solid well-rounded company around being the industry leader in hard drive destroying.
Why not let a professional hard drive destroyer like Phiston handle your data packed hard drive elimination process while putting your pistol back in the gun safe?
