Nearly ten million Americans were victims of some form of identity theft in 2009. The cost to individuals, businesses and financial institutions was over $48 billion dollars. When discarding computer hard drives, CD's, DVD's, tapes and other electronic media, it is essential to protect against the loss of the proprietary information they contain. Federal and state regulations like HIPAA, FACTA, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley assess strict, expensive penalties on individuals, businesses, institutions and government agencies that improperly dispose of electronic media.

It is just good, responsible business practice to control and protect private information, in all its forms, all the way to the trash can (after all, we all shred sensitive documents, don't we). Recovery of your data, or the data of your customers, by unscrupulous third parties can be devastating to them and to you. And simply "erasing" files or "reformatting" drives is not enough.

Today, the physical crushing, deformation or shredding of hard drives has become the preferred methodology for protection everyone from the potential loss or misuse of critical information. Physically destroying the hard drive is the only, safe, effective, responsible and compliant way of guaranteeing a permanent and complete deletion of sensitive data.

Our unique crushing machine delivers 12,000 pounds of crushing force to punch the leading edges out of the platter and make it impossible to retrieve any information. The powerful pressure punches through the hard drive chassis guaranteeing the platter will never spin again. The remaining data fragments still on the platter are rendered completely useless.

And, for added safety and absolute security, Shred and Go’s secure, certified hard drive destruction is done on-site or at our own facility. For certified, safe, secure destruction of your hard drives, Shred and Go is the most reliable choice in the industry.