Hard drive disposal and recycling
Crushing, shredding, degaussing and erasure for magnetic hard drives and SSDs, at your premises or at our facility in London.
About hard drive disposalCertified data destruction for London businesses
Hard drives, SSDs and servers erased, degaussed or shredded, on your premises or at our London facility. Every job comes with a certificate of data destruction.
- Certificate of destructionIssued for every job
- ICO registeredData protection no. ZA060744
- Same-day destructionFor most jobs
- No minimum orderFrom one drive to bulk loads
Expert and certified data destruction for businesses in London
Data destruction is the process of destroying the data stored on hard drives, SSDs or servers so that it cannot be accessed by unauthorised users or used for unauthorised purposes.
Unauthorised access, and access to data for fraud, is a particular concern for companies and organisations looking to sell and renew their equipment, including financial companies, marketing agencies, health professionals and hospitals, educational organisations and other businesses.
Three ways to make data unreadable
The right method depends on the level of destruction you need and whether it has to be certified for compliance. We agree it with you before the job starts, and two methods can be combined for greater security.
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Overwriting
Old information is overwritten with new data, making it difficult to locate or recover.
The equipment can be reused or sold on.
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Degaussing
The magnetic field is eliminated and the storage device destroyed at the same time, making it impossible to recover any information.
The drive is destroyed.
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Physical destruction
Disk shredding, disk crushing or disk melting. You can witness the destruction of your drives if you wish.
The drive is destroyed.
What we do
Data destruction
Secure erasure across every IT asset, from USB drives to large data centres and cloud environments, with a tamper-proof audit trail and erasure reports.
About data destructionDestroying all personal information
With an average lifespan of five years, business computers handle a lot of sensitive information, including financial information and private customer information, which can be at risk.
Since May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) stipulates that all customers’ personal data should be completely destroyed before disposing of IT equipment. That means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person: a name, an identification number, location data or an online identifier, and also factors specific to that person’s physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.
Getting certified data destruction
Data protection and security is now the complete responsibility of every business managing databases and private information. Non-compliance, and letting data slip into the wrong hands, can have serious and onerous consequences for a business.
Certificate of data destruction
- Client
- Example Company Ltd
- Media
- 12 × 3.5-inch hard drives
- Method
- Shredding
- Location
- On-site, witnessed by client
- Result
- Data destroyed
Example for illustration. We issue a certificate of data destruction when the work is complete.
How a collection works
Tell us what you have
Fill in the booking form or call 020 7064 4996 with the type and number of devices.
We collect, or come to you
We collect the hardware for destruction at our London facility, or do the work at your premises so the data never leaves the building.
Your data is destroyed
By the method agreed with you beforehand. You are welcome to watch.
You receive your certificate
A certificate of data destruction confirms the work for your compliance records.
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