+ Where can your information be hiding?
Your information can be stored in many places. E Waste Harvesters goes to great lengths to make sure your data is secure. There are many places your data may be, and called by many names. Some of these names are thumb drives, flash drive, usb external drive, solid state drive, e-proms, memory, and flash memory to name a few.
+ What products have your information?
The most common ones are the following:
Personal computers, Laptops, tablets, e-readers, cell phones, phone systems, copiers, printers, fax machines. POS equipment, net books, scanners, and PDA's.
+ What happens to hard drives at E-Waste Harvesters?
E-Waste Harvesters has 3 distinct ways to remove data and destroy your hard hard drives.
+ Hard Drive Destruction: (On Site)
A. We will arrive at the client's facility and destroy units on site with our portable hard drive punch.
B. Time is scheduled for our technician to arrive and set up the machine. We then remove the circuit boards from the hard drive.
C. We then punch the hard drive taking the spindle out of the drive and leaving the platters bent and/or shattered.
D. Upon leaving the clients facility the hard drives are securely transported to our facility where they are shredded. The client then receives a certificate of destruction.
+ Hard Drive Destruction: (On Shredder)
A. We securely transport hard drives from the client facility via a locked cage and security banded truck.
B. Upon arrival at our facility the hard drives go directly to the shredder to be shredded per D.O.D. guidelines.
C. The client then receives a certificate of destruction.
+ Hard Drive Destruction: (Inventory and shred)
A. We securely transport hard drives from the client facility via a locked cage and security banded truck.
B. Hard drives are inventoried by part number serial number and model number.
C. Boards are then removed from the hard drives.
D. We then shred the hard drives per D.O.D guidelines.
E. Boards are shredded separately per D.O.D Guidelines.
+ Recycling of Hard Drives
We take the security of hard drives very serious. The hard drive room is a secure room that is fenced in from any other room in the building. Only three people have the keys to this room. The CEO of E-Waste Harvesters, Warehouse Manager and IT Manager.
A. Hard drives are sanitized via a DOD erasure utility that is approved by the U.S. Department of Defense.
B. The first wipe writes a character, the second writes its complement on every sector of the hard drive.
C. The last wipe generates a random character. The D.O.D. has determined that no information is recoverable after this process.
D. The drive has now been sanitized and is ready for reuse.
E. If the drive for any reason does not pass any of the three wipes the drive will be sent for destruction.
F. The drive data is never accessed and the sanitation utility operates independently of an operating system.
