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22 Mar 2007
One of the more novel products exhibited at this year's CeBIT show was a hard drive shredder.
The offering from Neumann AG makes sure that data from discarded hard drives is never recoverable by literally shredding the device into small pieces.
Further reading
Irretrievably deleting data from a hard disk is easier said than done. True professionals can retrieve information from almost any data carrier, even damaged ones.
Traditional methods of securely wiping drives, either by writing over the entire drive with a series of ones or zeros, or by destroying the partition table, can be ineffective and time consuming.
This ultimate destroyer is similar to a shredder for garden cuttings. The 'hard disk crasher' can completely destroy up to 15 hard disks or 60 magnetic tapes per minute.
Users simply insert the drive into a small slot and the hard disk crasher chops them up into tiny bits. Not even the world's most capable IT pro can put the data together again.
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I know about the MAXX E GUARD
For John: the shredder machine you are looking for is called the MAXX E GUARD at www.maxxeguard.com
Posted by: Renee 09 Mar 2011
Where do I contact Neumann AG?
Really need this piece of kit - but Google only turns up a recruitment agency for Neumann - anyone point me to their site?
Posted by: John 17 Feb 2010
can you really do this
i want to destory about 500 hard disk. Can you do this with a hammer?
Posted by: raabeen 28 Mar 2009
Hard drive shredder
I can do it cheaper with a nice big hammer come to me only £5 per disc.Guaranteed unreadable after I have finished..
Posted by: Harry 23 Mar 2007