Hard drives and electronic media store a surprisingly large amount of information about your business, your customers, and more. Any and all electronic media needs to be properly destroyed and deemed unreadable before it leaves your possession.

Not only does this ensure you're in compliance with privacy laws, you're also protecting your San Jose company from a data breach. Just deleting files is not sufficient to destroy the information- it's easily recovered with free software.

To be sure the information is destroyed, you need to make sure that the hard drive is physically destroyed. Secure hard drive destruction options from San Jose Document Shredding can be done on site or at a secure Northern California plant. The pieces are then melted down for metal recycling, guaranteeing absolute destruction.

The hard drive shredding process focuses on three main steps.

1. Pick up or drop off the hard drives.
2. Destroyed by an industrial shredder.
3. Certificate of destruction for reassurance.

The entire service remains secure and upholds all industry regulations or laws. The shredded remains are then recycled while abiding with EPA and hazardous waste state laws. Rest assure there will be complete compliance and confidentiality.

Don't forget all of the hidden hard drives in your office. There are hard drives and memory cards in copy machines, fax machines, and other electronic devices throughout the office that should be removed and shredded before they are decommissioned, sold, or sent off to the recyclers.