Secure Hard Drive Wipe

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If you have an old personal or business computer that you are giving away to a relative, a recycling facility, a charity or merely disposing of the system as general waste, it is advisable to wipe the hard drive using secure deletion so that the data is irretrievably destroyed.

Many users assume that by "deleting the data" and then emptying their Windows "recycling bin" that the data is gone forever. It is not. The data remains on the drive and can be recovered.

We offer an on-site secure hard drive deletion service where your hard drive data is destroyed using the same protocol as recommended by the United States Department of Defense to their employees.

Benefits of Secure Data Deletion from your old hard drive:

  1. Eliminate the risk of identity theft and credit card fraud.
  2. Comply with the Irish Data Protection Act for the secure deletion of data.
  3. Eliminate the risk of commercially sensitive information getting into the wrong hands.

"The problem is that thousands of computers which cannot be usefully refurbished are also collected on the pretence of being for reuse and end up being sold in markets from Ghana to Nigeria, to Pakistan to China - along with data that has not been deleted"

(Source: Cahal Milmo , The Independent (UK Ed.) February 2009)