Recycling specialist Rehab Recycle has launched a mobile data destruction service that can erase hard drives for businesses on their own premises, saving them from transporting potentially valuable data offsite to be destroyed. The hard disk degaussing unit is mounted in a trolley and transported in a van to the premises. The hard drives are passed through the unit which renders the binary code unrecognisable.
According to Rehab Recycle, by offering complete destruction of data on site, the service eliminates the danger of information being lost or stolen. General manager Bob Rowat described visiting customer sites as “the natural next step in the evolution of our asset recovery and disposal service”. He adds that as the unit requires no power to run, it can be used to erase disks even if they are stored in areas with no electricity.
Rehab Recycle claims the data destruction software meets the highest security and international military standards, including those of the UK Ministry of Defence and the US National Security Agency. Rowat believes it is the “only one of its type in Ireland”. He is keen to talk up the unit’s ability to erase all data on the drives and make them unusable. “The hard drive cannot be reused,” he stressed. “You can’t get anything out of it. It can be used for scrap metal, but that’s all.” The company has not decided whether there will be a minimum requirement before the van can be called out to a customer’s premises but Rowat believes it will set a threshold. He thinks it will prove particularly attractive to businesses that have been reluctant or unwilling to let hard drives be taken off the premises to be destroyed.
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