How to Sanitize Your Hard Disk?

Well if you are a customer care company, then it becomes necessary to keep the confidential data about the clients, like credit card numbers, customer's information, important policies completely secured. If you go on for a hard drive erasure, then you need to use multi pass scrubbing technique.

Beside this, there are three other ways of sanitizing the hard disk:

i) Physical destruction
ii) Overwriting the disk's data
iii) Degaussing

Some people prefer physical destruction of disk. This includes smelting and pulverizing of disk. If you think that this is an expensive method, well then overwrite the disk data using hard disk shredder. This is the proper and an economical way of secure data removal.