Hard Drive Shredding - Big Business
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In an age where data breaches are fairly common, companies are looking for alternative to getting rid of their old hard disks with sensitive data on them. In steps two brothers who saw a need and have filled it. The Saraiva brothers saw a need and have filled. In the back of their truck is now a shredder that turns old hard disks into shrapnel. Though the brothers still provide other recycling functions, shedding is now becoming very lucrative for the creative duo.
According to the article it states:
"We’ve been focusing on hard-drive shredding for about a year and a half," says James Saraiva, who runs the business with his brother, Phil. "Before that it was all about recycling old computers." But one day a customer had trouble parting with the hard drives of those computers because a massive data breach had made the news. The brothers immediately saw the opportunity before them.
They recast the business as one specializing in the destruction of hard drives for the sake of keeping sensitive data out of sinister hands.
The serial numbers of the hard disks are recorded and after the shredding is complete, customers get a certificate showing the drive was destroyed. The brothers only charge $10 to destroy the drives and have lined up about 50 customers in the New England area.
I think this is a great business idea that can be expanded upon in other areas of the country or overseas.
Comments welcome.
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3 Comments
Tinman
September 18th, 2008
at 6:06pm
Gee, hasn’t anyone heard of fire? Or even a bath of acetone!
Theo Furber
December 21st, 2008
at 2:05pm
http://www.tbfcomputing.com offers computer disposal, recycling, data destruction and shredding and asset recovery in Atlanta, ga.
Document Shredding Service
January 24th, 2009
at 3:57am
In certain states, there are guidelines to destroying electronic devices like computers, harddrives, laptops, etc. Its not like destroying documents where the rules maybe a little flexible. I would check with state’s policies to make sure.