I have supplied many customers with conventional hard disk drive (HDD) shredders that offered either the standard 1.5" shred width or the high-security 0.75" shred width. But the fact is that the difference in actual data protection between those two shred sizes is small. In fact, 1.5" vs. 0.75" doesn't really affect who can potentially recover data from the media: Either particle size will require a forensic lab with millions of dollars in equipment and resources to recover data. A smaller size merely adds time and cost to the recovery process.
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If you are an IT refurbisher or ITAD and you are not using the Validator– the world’s first and only independent data erasure process verification tool - as a sanitization quality control tool, you are probably selling hard drives that have not been properly wiped.
The Validator identifies anomalies and errors in the data erasure process that slip right past other methods of process verification...
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