3 Reasons to Get Rid of Your Old Hard Drive

3 Reasons to Get Rid of Your Old Hard Drive

If you've got an old hard drive (or a few old hard drives) laying around, you're definitely not alone.

New Year New Office? Declutter with Royal Document Destruction

New Year New Office? Declutter with Royal Document Destruction

Turning over a new leaf this year? If you're ready to declutter your home or office, handling old records is an important step in the process. The 3-pile decluttering method encourages you to sort documents into three piles - keep, shred, recycle - and then address each pile from there, making the new year decluttering process easy to tackle for anybody. In this blog post, we'll walk you through the 3-pile decluttering method, help you determine which documents belong in each pile, and then highlight how the team at Royal Document Destruction functions as your partner along the way.

Preparing to Return to the Office: Declutter Your Home Office with Document Destruction

If you’ve been working from home and have tons of paperwork and other stuff from your office, it’s time to start getting rid of that stuff. One of the best things your company can do is send a shredding services company to your rescue. The beauty of that is you won’t have to leave home before it’s time and you’ll still be able to enforce data protection protocols and remain in compliance. Use technology to store what you need and make sure you categorize things based on usage and need. The goal is to get rid of everything and only keep the essentials you can’t do without.

Back to the Office: How to Update your Document Disposal Plan

Getting ready to go back to the office? Make sure your document retention and document destruction policies are in place. There are a few things you must do to stay in compliance:

Upgrading to the Latest and Greatest? How to Recycle Technology

Did you know office supply stores have computer recycling stations ready to take those computers and old cell phones off your hands? If you didn’t know, companies that pay for company cell phones usually have a cell phone recycling program as well.

Protect Your Customers Data with Hard Drive Destruction

A hard drive is a particularly valuable item to a criminal. Whether it starts as an idle curiosity or a full-fledged identity theft scheme, hard drives contain much information that people would prefer to keep private. If you own a business, it's up to you to keep your customers' information from falling into the wrong hands. The ripple effects of just one identity breach can branch into areas of people's lives that they may not have even realized were possible. Merely wiping a hard drive can't always do the job, and this is a common fallacy that can land people in hot water. Real hard drive destruction takes the whole process a step further, so you're assured that all the data stored on that drive is gone forever. 

What To Do With Your Old Electronics

From cell phones to external drives to old desktops, you can end up with a fairly large box full of miscellaneous gear from all kinds of manufacturers. So just how should you be getting rid of your cell phones and getting the answers as to what to do with old computers? Should you take the box to a technology recycling center and drop it off? Can you smash everything to bits and put it in the garbage can? Neither of these are great options. Old electronics are typically more dangerous than we sometimes realize. A hard drive may look destroyed, but even a novice cybercriminal will know that it's easier to extract valuable data than it may look. We'll look at what it means to really dispose of all your old electronics and why you might need to reconsider your plans. 

Is Your Business Properly Disposing of Old Technology?

Old technology is something of a mystery to many people. They may know that wiping a device entirely doesn't always erase the information, but they also might reasonably wonder if it's really necessary to take the extra step? When you consider just how valuable data can be though, particularly for small businesses that might not always have the best cyber security in general, the answer is that you don't want to take any chances. Breaches aren't just common, they're also exceptionally difficult to climb out from under the aftermath. We'll look at whether you're getting rid of your technology the way you should and what steps you can take to be a little more prepared for a data leak.

Our Media Destruction Process

When you’re considering how to dispose of old technology, one of the hardest things to consider is your hard drive. Hard drive wiping software is useful, but it does not completely erase all the sensitive information that can be compromised. In fact, hard drive destruction is probably the only way you will be able to ensure your information remains confidential and away from hackers or identity thieves who want to cause harm.

Save Time and Money with Professional Hard Drive Destruction

With so much technology and information floating around, it’s more important than ever to safely and securely destroy your hard drive. While many people think they can just get rid of their computer without wiping the information, they quickly find out their data can be compromised in the worst way. Using a professional hard drive destruction service is one of the best ways to ensure the hard drive is dismantled and disposed of properly.