[Paleo Conservative]

I found a company that shreds and recycles hard drives cheap. One drive for $20, up to 8 drives for $30. All that is required is packing them in a box, getting a receipt from their website, having Fedex pick it up or drop it off at Fedex/Kinko's. The company sends a certificate when the drives have been destroyed.

Hard Drive Destroyer

Secure, Easy, Media Destruction

Your Best Choice For Media Destruction

Destroying old media, such as hard drives, CDs, and backup tapes is a fact of life in the IT industry. You're responsible for the proper disposal of sensitive data. Overwriting and degaussing hard drives is not enough. To be sure that all data are irrecoverable, physical destruction of the medium is the only viable choice. Smashing a drive with a sledgehammer, or putting it in a hydraulic press is a lot of fun -- until you've done it a dozen times. We offer an alternative - you simply ship your media to us, on our dime, and we'll put it through an industrial shredder. When it comes out the other side, it will be a pile of tiny pieces to be recycled.

Quick and Easy.

Step 1 - Print your shredding label

Step 2 - Schedule your pickup

Step 3 - Your hard drive is shredded and recycled

Step 4 - You receive a certificate of destruction Affordable.

Our shredders go through 20,000 lbs of hard drives an hour. This speed allows us to give you the most economical option for hard drive shredding.

Secure.

Your drives are shredded in facility certified AAA by the National Association of Information Destruction (NAID). This is the highest level certification awarded in the industry. You can track your drives from the time they are picked up until they are destroyed. Once destroyed you are sent a certificate of destruction as proof the job was completed. It's the Law.

The data stored on magnetic media are covered by privacy laws including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act (FACTA). The law requires covered entities to destroy all customer data before the drives are thrown out.

Recycling.

Many people shred hard drives but then fail to dispose of them in accordance with EPA regulations for hazardous waste. We make sure that everything that can be recycled is and what little is left is disposed of correctly

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Cheap? Not hardly, LOL. I can do a lot with 20 bucks, besides giving it away.

[mkjessup]

That sounds good, but if I were a government spook looking to browse through the data remains of somebody’s discarded hard drive, I’d set up a company just like that.

[ETL]

From the ad you linked to:

"Smashing a drive with a sledgehammer, or putting it in a hydraulic press is a lot of fun -- until you've done it a dozen times. We offer an [$20.00] alternative..."

You would only have to physically destroy ONE, no? Save your money and just pretend that your hard drive represents the morons who voted for Obama. You will not only save cash, but relieve some stress.

[KarenMarie]

That would be great... until the first time that the gov decided that it was in the interest of National Security to get a warrant and confiscate all those drives. Or one of their employees get nosy about the reason someone wants to shred the drive and goes on a hunting exposition.

Unless I could carry it there and drop it in the shredder myself, I would not feel comfortable that it remains private.

Good find tho.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the information.