1st Choice Document Destruction, Inc (a member of the NAID Association) is proud to be an exclusive distributor for “The Guardian” Hard Drive Destroyer. Anyone in the paper shredding or computer recycling business will quickly understand how important it is to have a machine of this quality and what it can do for you and your customers. Made in the USA • Delivers catastrophic trauma to the hard drive chassis itself, destroying the internal platter, all retrievable files and folders. • Unlike any destroyer you've seen, performs a downward thrust that safely punches through the chassis guaranteeing the internal hard disk will never “spin” again. • Complies with recent security and privacy mandates requiring complete destruction of media containing private and confidential information prior to its disposal. 12,000 lbs of Force That Literally Destroys The Internal Hard Disk The Guardian Physical Hard Drive Destroyer inflicts irreparable damage to any hard drive, rendering stored files totally unobtainable. A steady crushing motion focuses 12,000 lbs of force that literally destroys the internal hard disk. Destroy Any Type of Drive in Record Time! The Guardian automatically destroys all hard drives regardless of their size, format or type in only 15 seconds. Simply push a button to ensure complete physical destruction. Guarding you, your organization and your data against misappropriation and theft. INTRODUCING THE GUARDIAN HARD DRIVE DESTROYER New Laws Demand Compliance With nearly 10 million Americans being the victim of ID Theft in 2003, costing business and financial institutions 48 billion dollars nationally, new laws impose severe penalties for the company that improperly discards their sensitive electronic records. Server Hard Drive Why Deleting (or reformatting) Your Data is Not Enough Like a file room, your hard drive has information physically located in specific areas. When you delete any file or folder the computer merely tags this space as available for future storage. The information itself resides exactly as it did prior to your delete. In fact, even after new information replaces the deleted files forensic techniques are available to recover the data.