Cut-away view of the inside of a hard drive, the round disk are called platters and hold all your data.

Magnets, Degaussers and other x-ray or magnetic techniques do not work, even the large bulk eraser magnets are not effective.

Drilling, smashing, torching and other external damage can still leave parts of the platters in decent shape to retrieve data through forensics.

Expensive shredders are very effective. We recommend shredders if you don't have the time to wipe out the data by software means.

Whether you're disposing of a hard drive or simply redeploying it as a new data or system drive, the hard disk drive needs to erase of old data. This means more than the traditional means to erase data off the hard disk drive, as erase data can be recovered on the hard drive. The hard disk drive should be scrubbed with a hard disk drive cleaning utility which will definitely erase the data off your hard disk drive.

Using the operating system's "delete" command doesn't actually erase the data. It simply marks the space on the disk as "available" so the operating system can re-use it. This is fast, but it leaves all the data in place on the hard disk drive, easy to recover. A disk erase data program, on the other hand, actually does erase the data on the hard disk drive to make it unreadable.

Because it uses the basic level to erase data, a hard disk drive only writes over the hard disk once, it is fast; however an expert cracker with the right software and enough patience may be able to recover at least some of the material on the disk even after you erase the data on the hard disk drive. A multi-pass scrubbing makes it much less likely that anything readable will be left on the hard disk drive that you did erase the data off of.

Basically it comes down to the level of security you need. If the information on the hard disk drive is extremely sensitive, such as customer information or credit card numbers, you may want us to use our data erase program which uses a multi-pass scrubbing technique. Otherwise, if you are going to re-use the erased hard disk drive on your own PC, then a basic erase should be enough. If you are going to dispose of the hard disk drive by donation, resale or junking, a multi-pass data erase is highly recommended and that you use our data erase hard disk drive method.

| WIPE DRIVE | ERASE DRIVE | DESTROY HARD DRIVE | SANITIZE DRIVE | CLEAN HARD DRIVE | ERASE DATA | WIPE DATA | CLEAN DATA
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| CLEAN DATA | ERASE DRIVE | WIPE DRIVE | ERASE DATA | SANITIZE DRIVE | CLEAN HARD DRIVE | WIPE DATA | DESTROY HARD DRIVE
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