Data Destruction

Surplex UK Limited operate to a very strict code of conduct concerning the destruction of personal, private and sensitive data.

Your liability regarding data

Under the data protection act, if disposal of data is not properly controlled, fines can be imposed on the owner of the equipment.

Data Destruction Process

Simply deleting data or reformatting a hard disk drive does not remove the data - it can be retrieved!

Surplex UK Limited will destroy all residual data on redundant media to DOD 5220.2-M standards, thus ensuring full compliance with the Data Protection Act. The process involves multiple overwriting by writing a specific and comlpicated pattern of controlled data to the media about fifteen times - this process is slow but it works, data is eradicated FOREVER! Non-working hard disk drives along with hard disk drives that cannot be successfully overwritten are physically destroyed before being recycled. More information is available upon request.

If you require any more information, please contact us