You may know us as
the place to go to recycle your electronics, but are you thinking down to the
details? We’ve shared with you before how we are able
to recycle electronics, such as televisions, but today we’re diving in a
little bit deeper. With our electronic recycling services, we complete all
teardown and value recovery. This means that we disassemble electronics down to
the basic components and then sort and separate them. What we can use for their
raw commodity, like plastics and metals, we do.
However, there may be
one thing on your mind when you bring a computer to us: what about the hard drive?
Recycling Computers
These days, most of
our lives are on a computer. We’ve got files dating back who knows how long,
private information, and data that we don’t want others to know. While this may
be the last thing on our mind when tossing out an old hard drive, it’s
something that we take seriously. Your data security is important to you, and
we get that. At Gold Circuit E-Cycling, we do what we can when it comes to your
hard drives. We take extra precaution to secure all hard drives that make their
way into our facility. When it comes time for them to be destroyed, we make
sure of it. We are able to physically destroy hard drives to make sure that all
of your personal data is safe, secure, and out of the wrong hands.
Your hard drive on
your computer may have things like bank information, website passwords, credit
card numbers, and health records. Even if you tried to delete it, it can still
have a place on your hard drive.
Our Data Destroyer
Our Data Destroyer
gets the job done quickly and efficiently with a crushing technique that goes
beyond just drilling holes or other tricks you may read about online. Our tools
bend the hard drive and move down the middle of it to create stretch marks,
making the data on the disk platters inaccessible. The entire destroying
process only takes a few seconds, so you can rest assured knowing it’ll get
handled quickly and easily. Sure, you can take a hammer to your hard drive, but
that is extremely dangerous as hard drives are made of various small pieces of
plastic, metal, and possibly even glass. Destroying your own hard drive can be
a dangerous feat, even if you have experience working with the technology.
Many have also tried
bending the pins or destroying the circuit board under the drive, however, that
is something that can easily be replaced by people who know what they are doing
when it comes to stealing your information. The only way to guarantee that your
data cannot be recovered is by destroying the disk and making it inaccessible
as we referenced above.
Why it Matters
You might be
wondering why it really matters and why you can’t just dispose of an old hard
drive at home along with your computer. Aside from the importance of recycling
certain materials within the old computer, destroying old hard drives protects
more than just the environment. It protects you and your information. Sometimes
people find themselves with numerous old hard drives if they’ve had to replace
them or have gotten new electronics. The thing is, these old hard drives laying
around put your data at risk of being stolen. Even if the data is on a hard
drive that is outdated or broken, it can still put your data at risk.
Not only is hard
drive destruction essential for people, but also for businesses. If your
computer holds records for other people on it, there are laws, such as HIPAA,
that were put in place to keep data safe. Destroying your hard drive can ensure
that your business protects the information on its hard drive.
We’re Here to Help
For just $10, we
offer this complete hard drive destruction to help give you peace of mind
knowing your data won’t land in the wrong hands. We also offer discounts for
businesses who are looking to do bulk hard drive destruction. Protect yourself
and the information you hold close by taking the responsible steps to properly
getting rid of your electronics, hard drives included. We’re here to help.
Contact us today at 888-283-0007 to set up a time for your drop off or to ask
any questions you may have.
