Hard Disk Crusher is serious about security

How serious are you about making sure that the secure data stored on your business's hard drives stays out of the wrong hands? Given the recent rash of corporate laptop thefts the last few years, the answer just might be "not serious enough." Well, while it might be overkill, one way to ensure that data cannot be recovered from a discarded drive is to physically destroy the drive itself. Enter the $11,500 EDR Hard Disk Crusher. This machine will drill through any hard drive, ripping the drive's platters apart in order to make data recovery impossible. According to EDR's website, the Hard Disk Crusher can tear through a drive in 10 seconds flat, so it certainly seems like it could be an efficient solution for enterprises with a large backlog of drives to crush.

For more on the disk crusher:
- see this Gearlog article