As people save more and more personal and confidential information onto their computers the topic of data security becomes more relevant.

As computer systems are upgraded or replaced the question of what to do with the old hard disk becomes important.

There are many ways to wipe a hard disk, some are insecure and some are much better at getting rid of your data For example, a simple format of your hard drive does nothing more than delete an index on the hard drive telling your computer where all the information is and as a result somebody could rebuild that index relatively easily using free data recovery and recover pretty much everything on it. Other ways of erasing hard disks include from 3-time overwrites of the entire disk to 12-time overwrites of the whole hard disk to absolutely guarantee data safety.

This solution is perfect for people throwing out old computer hardware or businesses before they sell or throw away their hardware.

Please note: This process can take many hours to complete.