Hard Drive Data: Why Deleting it Doesn’t Mean that it’s Gone

The importance of wiping your hard drive is unquestionable. When the time comes for businesses to dispose of their hard drives, an efficient and effective plan should already be in place. The safety of the company’s sensitive data and client information is critical, and extra measures must be taken to ensure data is properly destroyed.

Data recovery software is a rapidly evolving technology. More than ever, businesses are at risk for a data breach or having their sensitive data stolen. In today’s world, business owners are anxious about destroying their data. After all, it’s easier than ever for criminals to poach hard drives that someone assumed were wiped.

How Do I Know if My Hard Drives are Properly Wiped?

After you back up your important files and wipe your hard drive, there are a few steps to take before you can be confident about the disposal of your hard drives. Due to the advanced data recovery technology, simply deleting the files will not suffice.

Piecing together your files that were only deleted on the surface level is easy for criminals that may be targeting your business. To be fully thorough, utilize software that will overwrite all of your files with unreadable data. This process makes it impossible for any data recovery tech to recover (and read) your old files.

The software that will rewrite your files is usually quick, but it depends on the size of your hard drives and the amount of data on them.

Once this work is done, you will be able to reuse the physical hard drive. Business owners who prefer to not to reuse the physical hard drive can go a step further and shred their physical hard drives as well.

Why Professionals Destroy Hard Drives the Best

Being responsible for a business means ensuring that the security of its information and the information of its clients are secured. Business owners have the best intentions when manually wiping their hard drives, but some wiping software may not be adequate.

Using a professional who understands the seriousness of data disposal and is certified for data sanitization ensures complete data destruction. Trusting the experts with data destruction means you can rest easy knowing your data is totally unrecoverable.

Companies who opt to send their physical hard drive to professionals to shred instead of just wipe, are typically government contractors or businesses that deal with a large amount of secure private data. Merely wiping the hard drives does not always meet their industry requirements, so shredding with a certified destruction vendor ensures old drives have absolutely no chance of business information falling into the wrong hands.

We Make Data Destruction Seamless

SEAM Services is proud to provide North Dakota and South Dakota business owners with first-class data destruction and hard drive recycling. Contact us today and learn how our services protect business data.