Software Data Destruction Services

Cleardata's Certified Data Destruction service enables your to have the peace of mind that you sensitive data stored on hard disk drive will not expose you and your organisation to unnecessary risks.

For failed, failing or non-functioning hard disk drives please see our physical destruction methods here.

How Good Is Software Data Destruction / Sanitization?

Our software media sanitization methods will remove all traces of recoverable data via traditional data recovery software techniques.
However hard disk drives and other types of magnetic media may have areas which become inaccessible by normal software means. Hard disk drives are susceptible to developing "bad sectors", tapes by the same token are prone to "bad blocks" both occur after data has been written, in such situations software may fail to overwrite all data on the disk although this data would not be accessible to all but professional data recovery experts.

Certificate of Destruction

Once the data has been destroyed cleardata will then provide a certificate of destruction to declare the media as sanitized.

Hard Drive Sanitizing Standards

Depending on your organization you may require a specific level of destruction listed below are the common methods of securely destroying data. Should you require sanitization by another standard please contact us with your criteria.