These services rarely post prices (one, Oakville, Ontario-based Shred-It, wouldn’t even answer a request for a range of rates), but I’ve yet to see users report a price below $10 a drive.īy way of comparison, Cobb said DriveSavers charge from “several hundred dollars” up to thousands to recover a drive, with the difference due to the degree of damage and how fast a client needs the data back.Ĭobb advised paying up for professional drive destruction. At one extreme, you can pay a drive-shredding firm to use specialized machinery to rip a drive into tiny bits. How do that, however, is not something on which experts agree. But it’s faster and more practical to destroy the drive. You could keep the dead hard drive at home until the value of the data on it has decayed. He added that his Novato, Calif., employer “wouldn’t be in business if we couldn’t recover from this scenario.”īut what if you don't want to recover it - but make sure that information vanishes after you place it in the electronics waste recycling? “This is a typical scenario that we see from hard drives,” emailed Mike Cobb, director of engineering at data-recovery firm DriveSavers. But when that drive is a backup volume that held your most sensitive data, you have an extra worry: That it’s not dead enough, meaning your information can be retrieved with specialized tools. Reminder: Your data can survive on a dead hard drive.Ī hard drive crash is unnerving enough by itself - the tiny bundle of electronics that warehoused your data for years suddenly stops working, often with no warning.
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